![]() “The Front Runner” was a landmark gay novel published in 1974, five years after the Stonewall riots, one year before California officially decriminalized homosexuality the first to print the word “gay” on the cover and the first to make the New York Times bestseller list.īut while it is often tagged as a “gay love story of Coach Harlan Brown and his Olympic runner Billy Sive” in the 1970s, as publisher William Morrow first framed it, Warren intended it to be broader in scope. That book still, to this day, inspires people.” And she was constantly getting emails all the time from young people and older people who literally told her ‘The Front Runner’ saved their lives. “Up until her last moments, she was very clear. There’s nothing we wouldn’t do for her,” Zanfardino told the Los Angeles Blade by phone. 9 at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica after an almost three year struggle with lung cancer. He and his best friend Darryl Davis were with Warren when she died on Saturday, Feb. ![]() “You saved my life,” they told “The Front Runner” author over and over until the day before her death, according to her close friend Gregory Zanfardino. ![]() ![]() That shock of curly white hair crowning the famous Montana-born lesbian was a beacon for nervously thrilled gay men to find the writer holding court at whatever event she attended. Patricia Nell Warren was noticeable anywhere. ![]()
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