NPR: Walt Whitman, gay love and a posthumous novel

Daniel Dell Blake doesn’t want to fit in. He wants the right to stand out. But in a small fictional town of Elysium, New York, that’s a dangerous wish. Blake is the main character in - Song of Myself: A Novel. He was created four decades ago by a gay rights pioneer - Arnie Kantrowitz. Now - nearly three years after Kantrowitz’s death - his partner has succeeded in finally getting the novel published.

On an overcast day in New York City’s West Village, Dr. Larry Mass shuffled across the polished concrete floor of the New York City AIDS Memorial.He’s part of the Stonewall Generation — a cohort of LGBTQ activists who were energized by the Stonewall uprising in 1969.