“When we were in my grandmother’s small hometown in Baden-Württemberg, I stumbled onto a possible story in the old Jewish cemetery: the side-by-side gravestones, from 1862, of two young men—one of whom was my great-great-great uncle—who had died within a couple days of each other, and whose graves, it seemed, were inscribed with poems about their “friendship.” I became obsessed with researching this story of possible “queeritage” (queer heritage).” - Michael Lowenthal takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire.