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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hold Tight Gently Hold Tight Gently Martin Duberman In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from wha… OL17531664W
Messanger Messanger Mary Fisher The author, after contracting HIV as a young mother, describes how she traveled the world promoting self-sufficiency for HIV-positive women and pursued her own career as an award-winning artist to in… OL17904264W
First comes love First comes love Marion Winik The National Public Radio commentator reflects on her relationship with her late husband, their 1983 meeting at Mardi Gras, falling in love with a gay man, their marriage and children, the horrors of… OL19850225W
Last Watch of the Night Last Watch of the Night Paul Monette These autobiographical essays by the author of Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story include a portrait of his dog, an atheist's appreciation of priests, and a meditation on travel, all in the context of… OL21800288W
HELP! I'm Living with a (Man) Boy HELP! I'm Living with a (Man) Boy Betty McLellan From wet towels on the bathroom floor to carelessness with money or outright abuse, the frustrations of women with immature partners are viewed here as genuine problems to be solved by better communi… OL2404351W
Winter's Light Winter's Light John Preston In these stirring autobiographical essays and social commentaries, a prolific writer and gay rights pioneer--whose voice was stilled by AIDS in 1994--tells of the search for a place to belong. Presto… OL2651446W
Carmine's story Carmine's story Arlene Schulman A ten-year-old AIDS patient describes the disease, how he got it, and how it is affecting his daily life. OL2677175W
Anonymity Anonymity Susan Bergman The author tells of the secret life of her father, Don Heche, who died of AIDS in 1983 and the affect his double-life had on her religiously conservative family. OL3750198W
Go toward the light Go toward the light Chris Oyler,Beth Polson,Laurie Becklund This book will tell you the story of what the Oyler family went through when their oldest son, Benjamin, age 7 was diagnose with HIV/AIDS. The year was 1985, AIDS was a new disease, highly publicized… OL4988216W
The after-death room The after-death room Michael McColly At the 13th International AIDS conference in Durban, Michael McColly, a journalist and yoga teacher living with AIDS, found himself confronted with the deeper issues and ethical dimensions of the epi… OL8955952W
Loss within Loss Loss within Loss Edmund White,N. Y. Alliance for the Arts When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, so… OL9380922W