Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
$35.00 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
In the Eye of the Storm: Volunteers and Australia’s Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis by Robert Reynolds, Shirleene Robinson, Paul Sendziuk
$49.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
The people who volunteered to help during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s provided compassion and support to heavily stigmatised people. These volunteers provided in-home care for the sick and dying, staffed needle exchanges and telephone help-lines, produced educational resources, serv ...Show more
In the Shadow of the Epidemic - Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS by Walt Odets
$54.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies | Series: Series Q Ser.
For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who ...Show more
I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going - AIDS, the Art Scene, and Downtown New York in The 1980s by Peter McGough
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
Brilliantly funny, frank, and shattering, this is the bittersweet memoir by Peter McGough of his life with artist David McDermott. Set in New York's Lower East Side of the 1980s and mid-1990s, it is also a devastatingly candid look at the extreme naivet and dysfunction that would destroy both their live ...Show more
Jack Linou: The Art of An Outsider by Christos Linou & family
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Category: General Photography and Art
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
$37.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on ...Show more
Love from the Pink Palace - Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret Through the AIDS Crisis by Jill Nalder
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$34.99 (42% off)
Category: General Biography / Memoir
When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, h ...Show more
Love from the Pink Palace - Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret Through the AIDS Crisis, for Fans of IT's a SIN by Jill Nalder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Lesbian & Bi Biography / Memoir
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023**LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023*'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh reality . . . Just amazing' CATHERINE ZETA JONES ' ...Show more
Never Silent - ACT up and My Life in Activism by Peter Staley (Contribution by)
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Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." --Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist The previously untol ...Show more
Positive Images - Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Culture of 'Post Crisis' by Dion Kagan; Angela Smith (Series edited by); Claire Nally (Series edited by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies | Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Ser.
A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'. With the advent of antiretroviral drugs in the mid '90s, however, the meaning of an HIV diagnosis radically changed. These game-changing drugs now enable many people living ...Show more
Positive Images - Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Popular Culture of 'Post Crisis' by Dion Kagan
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Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s, during what was commonly termed "The AIDS Crisis." Since the advent of antiretroviral drugs, however, the connotations of HIV/AIDS have changed: having the virus no longer means certain death. But while these life saving dru ...Show more
Someone You Know: A Friend's Farewell by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
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$24.95 (19% off)
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
'Someone You Know' is Maria Palotta-Chiarolli's biography of Jon, who is living with AIDS, and the story of their extraordinary friendship. Maria and Jon teach each other, hold common views, they also share secrets. The threads and entanglements of their lives come together at Jon's final gathering. 'S ...Show more