Bearing witness

By Philip M. Kayal

Subjects: Aids (disease), political aspects, Gay men, Political aspects of AIDS (Disease), Community Health Services, Sozialarbeit, Politics, Attitudes, Prejudice, LGBTQ sociology, Homophobia, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, Volunteers, Phobic Disorders, Sexual Behavior, AIDS (Disease), Minority Studies, Homosexueller, Volunteer workers in community health services, Homosexuality, Public opinion, Gay men, social conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Public opinion, united states, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc, Social conditions, Social Conditions, Public Opinion, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, AIDS phobia, LGBTQ history, Discrimination & Race Relations, Ehrenamtliche Tätigkeit, Political aspects, Gay Men's Health Crisis

Description: BEARING WITNESS IS A STORY ABOUT HOPE, a statement of faith in the human spirit. By dint of circumstance, it is two stories rolled into one. On the one hand, it is the tale of how volunteerism became the most necessary and reliable response to the political problems caused by AIDS and, on the other, it is a chronicle of how the gay community mobilized itself in the service of transformation to contain and resolve the social, psychological, and spiritual issues that the disease raised.