A Place Like This

Once you've won a car on a game show been an actor owned a phone sex company been infected with HIV slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing.</p><P>In this true first-person account of the 1980's Los Angeles transforms an all-American boy from an actor in commercials plugging fast food to a gay phone line worker pushing fast sex. </p><P>King experiences firsthand nearly every gay social milestone of an astonishing decade-drug use the phone sex trade the onset of AIDS Rock Hudson assisted suicide anonymous encounters the early development of AIDS organizations and activism Magic Johnson's announcement-and shares his experiences with disarming humor and startling candor. </p><P>AIDS eventually converts King's plunge into sex and drugs to an increasing awareness of mortality-and a renewed search for meaning.</p>