“I have cooked for 12 several times already. . . . “Three or four times a week someone cooks for the whole house and guests,” Gunn wrote to a friend not long after moving in. In his queer home, Gunn, who is best known for his profound 1992 collection “The Man with Night Sweats,” a series of meditations on the impact of AIDS on his community, established a discipline of care that was a source of stability and comfort to him during the seismic changes in gay life that occurred during his years there. It was purchased in part with a Guggenheim grant that Gunn received in 1971, and he shared it with his long-term partner, the theatre artist Mike Kitay, and various of their respective lovers and friends.
The Victorian house, in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco, where the British-born poet Thom Gunn lived for more than thirty years and where he died, in 2004, at the age of seventy-four, is as pretty as all the other houses on Cole Street.
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