![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The story that he told me was about this man who would go onto the subway during rush hour,’ says Joseph. There could surely be no sharper practical lesson in softening the bedside manner of natural scientists. In a lecture theatre, they would hear the story of a surviving AIDS patient from the height of the pandemic. In their first year, medical students are given an acute empathy lesson. His date relayed a tale that stuck with Joseph. Cassara grew up an hour out of the city, in New Jersey, the son of a Sicilian father and Puerto Rican mother. In his final year as an undergraduate at Columbia University, New York, the writer Joseph Cassara went on a date with a medical student. His first book, Good As You, a personal and pop-cultural mapping of the thirty years preceding British legal gay equality in the UK came out in 2017, published by Ebury. He is Senior Contributing Editor at Love magazine and a columnist at Grazia and Attitude. ![]()
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