Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
Upon it's first publication twenty years ago, "And The Band Played" on was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting. An international bestseller, a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and made into a critically acclaimed movie, Shilts' expose revealed why AIDS was al ...Show more
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
Critically reimagines Chicanx art, unmasking its queer afterlife Emboldened by the boom in art, fashion, music, and retail culture in 1980s Los Angeles, the iconoclasts of queer Aztl n--as Robb Hern ndez terms the group of artists who emerged from East LA, Orange County, and other parts of Southern Cal ...Show more
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
The early 1980s witnessed the rise of a devastating disease that would kill millions worldwide, including thousands of young gay men: what would become known as the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In those dark days, Keith Paulusse transformed his South Yarra flower shop, Big Bunches, into a pioneering refuge and co ...Show more
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
Fighting For Our Lives is the inspirational story of communities directly affected by the AIDS crisis. Against a harrowing backdrop of illness and death, fear and anger, hate and discrimination, they bravely took action. During the darkest years of the epidemic, marginalised communities – mostly ...Show more
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
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
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
The never-published memoir of the visual artist and social justice activist behind the Rainbow Flag, created by Baker in 1978 at the request of Harvey Milk, which became an international emblem of the modern LGBTQ+ movement.
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 gatherin ...Show more
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Text Classics Ser.
John Foster's moving yet unsentimental account of the life of his partner, Juan Cespedes. In 1981 the young Cuban dancer Juan is a struggling dancer in NYC. There he meets John, an Australian historian. The two live in New York, where Juan tries to make it on Broadway. They cross the globe together, bat ...Show more
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir | Series: Biography Ser.
'Throughout my years of practice, people have often asked me why I decided to specialise in sexual health. The question is not surprising given that sexual health doctors are not held in the same regard as those who work in other medical specialties ... We sexual health physicians don't grow rich, but w ...Show more
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
The real story of AIDS - how it originated with a virus in a chimpanzee, jumped to one human and infected more than 60 million people - is very different from what most of us think we know. Recent research has revealed dark surprises and yielded a radically new scenario of how AIDS began and spread. Exc ...Show more
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
“Funny how a gay man’s hand resting heavily on your shoulder used to say let’s fuck but now means let’s not. Funny how ostensible nearness really betrays distance sometimes.” —from The Nearness of Others In this radical, genre-bending narrative, David Caron tells the ...Show more
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