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This paper aims to analyze the U.S. writer and teacher Tom Spanbauer’s novel  In the City of Shy Hunters  by means of theoretical perspectives that embrace both queer and communitarian epistemologies. The novel, set mainly in New York City in the mid-1980s, is narrated in first person by the protagonist and shows how HIV/AIDS, and the elevated social stigma surrounding it, affects different classes and ethnicities, as well as gender, sexual and corporal diversities. It experiments with a particular writing style and teaching method that Spanbauer calls dangerous writing; that is, how to expose our inner life and secrets, which are often related to social taboos. The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the connection between  dangerous writing , queer studies (Judith Butler, Annamarie Jagose) and community theory (Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot and Roberto Esposito) by adopting a multidisciplinary approach to literary critical analysis. The main result of this study demonstrates that the  singularities  represented in the novel, who are mostly queer and affected by HIV/AIDS, can create  inoperative communities  and  communities of lovers , open to otherness as well as being spontaneous, antisocial and momentary, with a recognition and acceptance of mortality.

“Language Is My Second Language”: Dangerous Writing and Hiv-Affected Communities in Tom Spanbauer’s In the City of Shy Hunters