Bo Huston

Paul Richard "Bo" Huston (June 10, 1959 – May 24, 1993) was an American writer.

Born Paul Richard Huston, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, he attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and spent the best part of the 1980s exploring the New York scene. He marched in the first March on Washington, DC, in 1979 and took great joy in the outlaw aspect of gay culture. He was briefly a film student at New York University in the early 1980s, but withdrew from the program and worked in typesetting. and Dream Life in 1992.

He died of AIDS in 1993.

He was a three-time Lambda Literary Award nominee, garnering nods for Gay Debut Fiction at the 3rd Lambda Literary Awards in 1991 for Horse and Other Stories, for Gay Fiction at the 5th Lambda Literary Awards in 1993 for Dream Life, and for Gay Fiction at the 6th Lambda Literary Awards in 1994 for The Listener. The Listener also won the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Literature.

After Huston's death, Carmell and lesbian writer Dorothy Allison coparented a child together.

Works Horse and Other Stories (1990) Remember Me (1991) Dream Life (1992) The Listener (1993)