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Loving Scott is a collage-part biography and part memoir. Graphic tales are set in Paris, Berlin, Minneapolis, and New York. It is romantic, with love and beauty. It is tragic, with alcoholism and drug addiction. Yet there is hope. Story after story follows the author's journey from young motherhood through her struggles-and those of her children-to live on their own terms. At first, she attempts to raise her son and daughter in an open and progressive atmosphere while living in the conservative Midwest of the sixties. As a child, her son Scott puts on plays and dresses in drag while his mother begins art school. When she succumbs to alcoholism, Scott becomes addicted to heroin. Through the gender issues, recoveries, AIDS crisis, and family dramas of mother and son, they bond over mutual ties in the drag, photography, and fashion worlds of New York and Paris. Shared travels in Europe eventually enable them to overcome insecurities to find acceptance, love, and spirit. Loving Scott is a testimony to Scott's brilliant accomplishments throughout two careers, beginning with his formative years as a drag queen in New York's East Village scene in the early nineties. Performing alternately as Miss Demeanor or Misty, he meets Ru Paul, Linda Simpson, and Nan Goldin. When the Millennium ushers in a second successful career as a celebrated makeup artist, Scott heightens the beauty of a procession of international supermodels and superstars-including Liza Minelli, Hilary Swank, and Sarah Jessica Parker. Ultimately, a loving long-term relationship and financial success give Scott the life he longed for-but sadly-only up until his tragic return to drugs and alcohol.

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"""A mother's deeply loving tribute to her talented, charismatic son. From the glamour of the disco tinged 70's into the drag world and through an exploration of dual addictions, Loving Scott is a mother and son's complex, symbiotic relationship-heartfelt, raw and compelling."" -Marlene Adelstein, author of USA Today bestseller, Sophie Last Seen ""This intriguing and moving memoir of a mother's journey raising a 'different drummer' son several decades ago is more timely now than ever."" -Debbie Seaman, author of The Fearless Flier's Handbook ""Pat is an excellent writer and the story is so interesting."" -Abigail Thomas, author of A Three Dog Life ""You gave me a gift. I had been struggling at a low point and your story was what I needed. It gave me what my son needed to hear-that I am already proud of him. Your heart has helped me."" -Carol Cadmus, editor, Peloton Business Advantage ""Visual Artist Pat Horner's memoir of her talented son is a loving remembrance of his storied career as an international performance artist working the New York and Paris avant-garde scenes. Beautiful, creative and successful, Scott is portrayed by his mother with great sensitivity and at times, pain. The memoir is a must read for anyone who has lost a treasured child too early."" -Martha Ellen Hughes, author of Precious in His Sight ""Scott's story is the heart-breaking reveal of an outstanding drag queen lost too early to drugs and alcohol. It is also the story of his artist mother, only 18 when he was born, overwhelmed by motherhood and prone to escape into whatever she could find. And it is a crystal clear reflection of deep love and grief for a precious lost son, who defied convention and triumphed by living true to his nature."" -Maureen Brady, author of Getaway, Ginger's Fire, Folly, and others"

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Pat Horner first published at age sixteen with her column, Horner's Corner, in the Minneapolis Central High newspaper. She went on to become a photographer, collage artist, abstract painter, writer, journalist, teacher, and creative coach. Her stories, articles, and art have been published in Utne Reader, The Progressive, Woodstock Times, Blue Stocking, Inside/Out, and Wildlife Art magazines. When her son, Scott, passed away in 2014, Pat embarked on a quest to explore their passionate fifty years of joy, sorrow, and fabulous makeup. Horner lives in Woodstock, New York, with her husband, David.

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