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And the Band Played On by SHILTS RANDY
$44.99 AUD
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
Archiving an Epidemic - Art, AIDS, and the Queer Chicanx Avant-Garde by Robb Hernández
$59.99 AUD
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
Fighting for Our Lives - The History of a Community's Response to AIDS by Nick Cook
$39.99 AUD
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 gay men ...Show more
Hold Tight Gently - Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Martin Duberman
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-re ...Show more
How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS by David France
$22.99 AUD
Category: HIV & AIDS Studies
One of The New York Times "100 Notable Books of 2016" KOBO "Best of the Year" From the creator of the seminal documentary of the same name, an Oscar finalist, the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic stories of the gay activists who refu ...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
$39.99 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
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
$50.00 AUD
Category: General Photography and Art
Positive Images - Gay Men and HIV/AIDS in the Popular Culture of 'Post Crisis' by Dion Kagan
$123.00 AUD
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
Rainbow Warrior - My Life in Color by Gilbert Baker
$49.99 AUD
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.
Someone You Know: A Friend's Farewell by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
$19.99 AUD
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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
Take Me to Paris, Johnny (Text Classic) by Peter Craven (Introduction by); John Rickard (Afterword by); John Foster
$12.95 AUD
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