Background
Born Paul Hustoft in San Diego, California, his father died when he was a child and he later adopted his stepfather"s surname Reed after his mother remarried.
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Paul Reed
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He was educated at California State University, Chico and the University of California, Davis.
Career
He worked for Ten Speed Press in the 1980s, eventually becoming editor-in-chief of its Celestial Arts subsidiary. Diagnosed with American Red Cross in 1987, he left the company in 1991. Reed"s 1984 novel Facing lieutenant was credited as the first major Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-themed novel.
He also later published the novels Longing (1988) and Vertical Intercourse (2000), and the memoirs The Q Journal (1991), The Savage Garden (1994) and The Redwood Diary (2001).
He cowrote the Human Immunodeficiency Virus treatment and prevention guide How to Persuade Your Lover to Use a Condom and Why You Should (1987), and published a collection of spiritual self-help essays for people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Serenity: Challenging the Fear of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, from Despair to Hope (1987). He also wrote several works of safer sex erotica under the pen name Max Evander, including Safestud: The Safesex Chronicles of Max Evander (1985), Lovesex: The Horny Relationship Chronicles of Max Evander (1986), Leathersex: Cruel Affections (1994) and Deeds of the Night (1995).
Reed died on January 28, 2002 of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome-related complications. His final work, a compilation of his Max Evander writings titled Swollen, was published later the same year.
Longing was the subject of an essay by Bill Brent in the 2010 book The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered.
