The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek

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The cinematic, never-before-told story of two intimately entangled artists who redefined queer art. When Paul Thek met Peter Hujar in the winter of 1956 in Coral Gables, Florida, a slow-simmering connection began to burn. Thek, twenty-three and living in Miami, was handsome and itching to make it as a painter; in the twenty-two-year-old Hujar, a shy, sensual photographer, he’d found a kindred spirit. By 1960, they were dating and living in New York, beginning decades of sex, love, competition, and…