Deep House

In 1996, Jeremy Atherton Lin meets the boy of his dreams, a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit. At the same moment, amid a media frenzy, the US Congress is preparing the Defense of Marriage Act, which would deny same-sex couples federal rights, immigration among them. The couple slip away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms and San Francisco dives. With no other legal way to stay together, they settle illicitly in a city of refuge, among unlikely allies. This is a memoir of that relationship and the years in which it was lived.