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LGBTQ Nation feature: "Here’s how an ‘Army of Lovers’ fought AIDS & changed health care in America" by Ron Goldberg | "People were yelling about issues I didn’t understand, displaying political and cultural sensitivities I hadn’t even begun to contemplate. But there was something powerful going on in that room, and I knew I had to be a part of it."

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Green Arcade Books video: Reading and Conversation with K.M. Soehnlein & Ron Goldberg (World AIDS Day) | "Two renowned authors and activists joined us to mark the day by reading from their writing and sharing stories from their experiences during the formation of ACT UP."

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LA Blade review: K.M. Soehnlein's "Army of Lovers," by John Weir | "This novel is a stunning act of remembering. It’s a visceral re-creation of the sights, sounds, smells, the feel of Manhattan from Wall Street to Times Square in the late 1980s and early ’90s."

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SF Examiner profile: K.M. Soehnlein memorializes the early and intense years of AIDS activism in "Army of Lovers," by Josh Rotter | "When award-winning novelist K.M. Soehnlein started working on his fourth semi-autobiographical book...he knew it would be his most difficult one thus far."

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LargeHearted Boy blog: K.M. Soehnlein's Playlist for His Novel "Army of Lovers" | Music inspired by "a captivating and poignant coming-of-age story that incisively captures the ACT UP movement of late '80s–early '90s New York City." 

 

Bay Area Reporter review: Love and Losses in K.M. Soehnlein's "Army of Lovers," by Jim Piechota | "In this stunning return to form, Soehnlein's brilliant novel of love, sex, social activism and sobering loss will incite nostalgia, pride, and a fierce sense of queer solidarity." 

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San Francisco Chronicle review: As AIDS raged in S.F. and N.Y., a young queer activist came of age and took notes, by Anisse Gross | "...this is a novel that delivers on literature’s great themes of love and loss..." 

 

EDGE Media Network review: "Army of Lovers" Vividly Recounts Passion, Pride, and 1980s AIDS Activism, by Kilian Melloy | "...packs a punch...bristles with urgent energy..." 

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Fauxmoir Literary Journal interview: A Conversation with K.M. Soehnlein, by Swetha Amit | "I hope that people who want to see a change in this world will take inspiration about how to participate in political activism and community organizing." 

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K.M. Soehnlein and Monique Jenkinson, author of Faux Queen, chat about books, art, and activism

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K.M. Soehnlein interviews Armistead Maupin about Tales of the City and a life of writing

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Identity Theory interviews K.M. Soehnlein

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The Rumpus interviews K.M. Soehnlein

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“Best San Francisco Novels” list names You Can Say You Knew Me When 

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K.M. Soehnlein on Goodreads