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''Tim and Pete'' is the third novel written by James Robert Baker (1946–1997), an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction.〔(【引用サイトリンク】date=2006-10-18 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 date=2005-04-30 )〕〔Rivenburg, Roy. ("He's Angry, Raunchy and Unapologetic". ) ''Los Angeles Times'', April 8, 1993; Page E-1.〕 A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After graduating from UCLA, he began his career as a screenwriter, but became disillusioned and started writing novels instead.〔Harris M. Lentz, ''Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 1997: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture'', McFarland & Co., 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0460-4, ISBN 978-0-7864-0460-5.〕 Though he garnered fame for his books ''Fuel-Injected Dreams'' and ''Boy Wonder'', after the controversy surrounding publication of his novel, ''Tim and Pete'', he faced increasing difficulty having his work published. According to his boyfriend, this was a contributing factor in his suicide. Baker's work has achieved cult status in the years since his death, and two additional novels have been posthumously published.〔Labonté, Richard. ("Testosterone and Adrenaline by James Robert Baker". ) ''Planet Out Book Reviews'', October 18, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-10-30.〕〔Willis, Paul J. (Testosterone. ) ''Forward Magazine'', November 2000. Retrieved on 2006-10-30. See Also: Publishers Weekly, September 11, 2000, Section: pwforecasts; Pg. 65〕 , first editions of ''Adrenaline'', ''Boy Wonder'', ''Fuel-Injected Dreams'' and ''Tim and Pete'' have become collector's items and command high prices at rare book stores.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.alibris.com ) See Also: (【引用サイトリンク】 url= http://www.biblio.com/ )〕〔Young, J. "Bob'S Head Soup". ''Herald Sun'', Australia; August 17, 1995 (page number unavailable).〕 First-edition copies of his earlier works have become collector's items. ''Adrenaline'' was published in 1985 under the pseudonym James Dillinger.〔"James Robert Baker, Writer", ''The Palm Beach Post'', page 3B, Nov 25, 1997.〕 A story of two gay fugitive lovers on the run, it presaged the satire and drug fueled violence so prominent in his later books.〔Joel Perry, "Pumped Fiction: The newest pedal-To-The-Metal Novel by James Robert Baker is, Sadly, His Last", ''The Advocate'' page 73, October 10, 2000.〕 Here Baker began developing the themes that dominated his following works: anarchy; angry and somewhat paranoid gay men; the dark underside of Los Angeles, juxtaposed with its sunny outward image;〔Martin Dines, "From Subterranean to Suburban: The Landscapes of Gay Outlaw Writing", ''American Studies Journal, Number 50, Fall 2007, ISSN: 1433-5239.〕 the hypocrisy of organized religion; anonymous sex and its implications in the age of AIDS; and homophobia and the oppression of gays in a Republican dominated America.〔Wharton, Greg. (Testosterone. ) ''3AMmagazine''. Retrieved on 2006-10-30.〕〔Variety Staff. ("James Robert Baker". ) Daily Variety, December 11, 1997. See Also: Levy, Dan. "Up-Front or Undercover?" ''San Francisco Chronicle'', June 20, 1993; Section: Sunday Review; Pg. 9〕 Its plot device of underdog characters forced into flight due to circumstances beyond their control was one Baker explored in all of his subsequent work. James noted "Baker had many issues with the world at large, homophobic cops and preachers along with closeted Hollywood moguls, in particular, and he was able to find satisfaction in his novels that he could not find in real life" stemming from "pent up anger at the homophobic America at elected Ronald Reagan twice and sat by clucking their teeth while so many gay men died of AIDS."〔C.B. James, "Adrenaline by James Robert Baker", ''Ready When You Are'', November 13, 2007.〕 ''Gay Community News'' noted "he has an eye for the absurd, the quixotic, and the downright existential in pop culture".〔 ==Plot overview== Two former gay lovers, Pete, and the narrator of the novel Tim, are reunited when Tim needs a ride back to Los Angeles.〔Sinfield, 78-9.〕 They go on a surreal adventure over the next day-and-a-half, most of it in cars, with memories of the last twenty years, including tea rooms and bathhouses, increasingly enraging them at the AIDS pandemic destruction.〔〔Lambda, page 15.〕〔Boone, pages 236, 257.〕 Sleep deprived, using gallows humor and self-medicating with mescaline-spiked drinks they travel through an increasingly hostile environment meeting a bizarre and queer cast of supporting characters who fuel undercurrent rage at society's homophobia and the LGBT community's apathy.〔Sinfield, 78-82.〕〔Slide, pages 32-3.〕 They meet an occult-obsessed indie filmmaker, leather-dykes,〔Sinfield, page 79.〕 a Southern belle drag queen and then four anarchistic gays who are HIV-positive.〔 The quartet reflect the hopelessness felt as their friends die and the country does little to counteract a "gay" disease.〔〔Sinfield, 80-82.〕 They hope to win the cultural war by assassinating ex-President Ronald Reagan, who did little for the first four years of growing HIV-AIDS epidemic, by bombing him at a church service.〔Eiselein, page 168-9.〕 Tim and Pete convince the plotters to change targets to a meeting of the American Family Association, a group known for its anti-LGBT rhetoric that led to the failed response to AIDS, where there would be fewer "innocent" victims.〔Kruger, 239.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim and Pete」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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