I’m reading “The last Chairlift,” the latest novel by John #Irving. Somewhere in the middle (chapter 37) there is a scene when in the early 1980s, the narrator together with his stepdad Elliot, who is then a transgender woman, visits a dying (AIDS) former lover of Elliot—Charlie. Charlie’s wife is miserable, his nurse Peter is homophobic and full of hate.
I’m pretty sure I saw this scene in a movie years ago, but which one and when? Did Irving borrow from himself or someone else?