Patrick Moore (2) (1962–)
Author of Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir
For other authors named Patrick Moore, see the disambiguation page.
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- Patrick has been sober since March 21, 1995. He lives with his husband, Joaquin, in Pittsburgh and works for the Persad Center.
Patrick is the author of Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir, The Principles, Beyond Shame, Iowa (out of print), and This Every Night (out of print).[from Amazon website]
Patrick Moore is an author, activist, producer, and counselor living in Los Angeles. As an author, Moore is best known for Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir, which tracks his descent into addiction and through the sometimes equally strange world of recovery. In 2004, Beacon Press published Moore's analysis of how AIDS had warped the legacy of sexual experimentation for gay men in Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality. Moore's work as a journalist has appeared in The Advocate, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Chicago Tribune.
Earlier in his career, Moore was the Founding Director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a non-profit effort to preserve and present the cultural artifacts of the AIDS crisis. At the Estate Project, Moore pioneered the use of digital technology to preserve art works in several media and developed collaborative projects with the Guggenheim Museum, the Academy Film Archive, and the New York Public Library.
Moore has produced digital content for Yahoo! Health where he served as an "Expert Blogger" covering mental health and spirituality. He also produced video content for Yahoo! including a cooking show featuring Wolfgang Puck and a parenting series with the comic Julia Sweeney.
Currently, Moore works as a drug and alcohol counselor and is producing a documentary. - Nationality
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Patrick Moore has died in Skywatchers (December 2012)
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I'm not quite sure what to make of this book. On the one hand, it does some important work and was able to get a lot of access to primary sources/interviews with really interesting gay people, whose voices are easily the highlight of the text. On the other hand, the book is more personal than it presents itself as being, and can sometimes be really lacking in nuance. It also spends more time on the "reclaiming" aspect of the title than on the actual history of radical gay sexuality, which it show more primarily considers as the pre-AIDS culture of the 70s. As a reading experience, it volleyed from delight to frustration constantly.
On a third hand, there are a few passages which, all by themselves have made this book a worthwhile read for me. For example,"[Jeanne] Barney, a straight woman, was an unlikely choice to be editor of America's first leather magazine. However, she had high ambitions for it: "With Drummer, I wanted a gay leather S/M Evergreen Review. The leather people I knew were older, better educated, more affluent, intelligent, affable, and I felt that they deserved the best possible product." Barney may not have fit the stereotypical role of a leader in the leather community but she was definitely in sync with its spirit and her interest in S/M was not voyeuristic: "I was with the guys and I was sort of a Mother Superior. I would be lying if said my interests weren't piqued. Just by chance I met a detective from the Hollywood Division. I used to get him in my living room and get him all lubed up with K-Y. And there is nothing in this whole world as satisfying as having your fist up the ass of the LAPD."" Like that makes it a four star book all by itself. show less
On a third hand, there are a few passages which, all by themselves have made this book a worthwhile read for me. For example,
This was not what I expected and I really struggled to finish. It's not that it was a poorly written book, actually I found it almost poetic in nature and language. The problem ls that it was more a memoir on his homosexuality and his sex life rather than the drugs. I'm rather opened minded and talk of sexual encounters don't put me off even if it's the darker side of the pleasure realm but that was all this book was about. Well written just not for me.
It wasn’t the sort of book I already had an opinion on, which is why I delayed reviewing it. Maybe I should read it again. But I do remember. It takes courage even for a tough guy to admit that he has been an addict, betrayed his lover, and heard a voice in a delusion (?) say that, “I’ll help you but this is the last time.”
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