Press for When You Call My Name

  • KIRKUS: Tucker Shaw takes you there.

    “What did it look like to be a gay teenager back then? What did it mean, in a pre-internet era, to seek and find kindred spirits?” Read More

    — Kirkus

  • CFDA: Tucker Shaw on love, loss, and When You Call My Name

    “This book is my way to remind people, especially young people just discovering their cultural and political power, that our LGBTQIA+ community has an extraordinary capacity for positive change.” Read More

    — CFDA

  • GAY TIMES: Tucker Shaw on this summer’s most powerful LGBTQ+ novel.

    “We still connected with each other, we still went out dancing, consumed music like fanatics, we still cared about fashion… we still fell in love.” Read More

    — Gay Times

  • PENGUIN PLATFORM (Video): Writing Queer History in YA with Tucker Shaw

    A video conversation with Rowan Ellis about When You Call My Name, and writing personal, challenging queer fiction. Watch

    —Penguin Platform via YouTube

  • PINK NEWS: What it was really like to live through the height of the AIDS crisis.

    “We really made space to care about each other and to celebrate each other, and I think that’s important to show..” Read More

    — Pink News

  • THE NERD DAILY: Q&A: Tucker Shaw, author of When You Call My Name

    “I hope that people who read When You Call My Name will get a sense not just of what we’ve accomplished in the past, but what we’re capable of accomplishing in the future.“ Read More

    — The Nerd Daily

  • POP BUZZ: Tucker Shaw: "Being gay is the greatest gift I was ever given"

    “At 18, I learned how it feels to fall, truly, in love. How it feels for your heart to jump at the sound of a voice or the gesture of a hand. And what it means to lose.” Read More

    — Pop Buzz

  • AVOCADO DIARIES: In Conversation with Tucker Shaw

    DescriptiMuch of When You Call My Name reflects a very important time in my own life. I am just a few years older than the main characters Adam and Ben (I turned 22 in 1990), and the late 1980s/early 1990s were foundational years for me. Incredibly exciting ones in some ways — music, fashion, pop culture—but also fraught, especially in the LGBTQ community. Read More

    — Avocado Diaries