Jerry Wheeler Co-hosts On the Air with Florenza

They found each other young. The world spent forty years testing the decision. In Mercedes General, Jerry L. Wheeler follows writer Kent Mortenson and architect Spencer Michalek from boyhood into adulthood as they build a life together in a world that isn't always willing to let them. Told through a series of interconnected stories, their journey moves through family battles, prejudice, protest, love, loss, and the devastating early years of the AIDS epidemic—including their decision to establish an AIDS hospice. Tender in one moment, funny and unapologetically raw in the next, Mercedes General is more than a story about two men who loved each other. It's a glimpse into a generation of queer lives, loves, and history that too often went undocumented. Some love stories survive the times. Others bear witness to them. #JerryLWheeler #MercedesGeneral #QueerFiction #LGBTQFiction #QueerLiterature #QueerHistory #LoveAndLoss #AIDSEra #LiteraryFiction #LinkedStories #BookTok #AuthorInterview #OnTheAirWithFlorenza #ListenReadPonder