Front Runners New York is named after the best-selling novel The Front Runner, by Patricia Nell Warren. It is an inspiring story between an ex-Marine coach training three highly gifted runners for the 1976 Montreal Olympics. The plot gets complicated when the closeted gay coach falls in love with his most gifted athlete.

The author, Patricia Nell Warren, is a well-known writer of several other novels involving LGBT characters. To learn more about her, please visit her website. Pictured to the right is Patricia and FRNY Member Joe at a book signing event at the 1st Out Games in Montreal.

To obtain a copy of the book, please visit your local bookstore.

Here is an excerpt from Bud Budlong's "Front Runners: How It All Began":

...We voted on "Front Runners" at the second or third meeting. Half the people who came to those meetings swear that the name was their idea. They are all correct; quite a few people suggested it. Yes it was inspired by Patricia Nell Warren's novel, and no, we did not ask her permission - it never occurred to us to ask...