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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Moving Politics Moving Politics Deborah B. Gould In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the str… OL13745210W
From ACT UP to the WTO From ACT UP to the WTO Ronald Hayduk,Benjamin Shepard This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. Divided into five sections, it explores the innovative use of civil rights era non-violent disobedience, medi… OL18939147W
How to Survive a Plague How to Survive a Plague David France "From the creator of and inspired by the seminal documentary of the same name--an Oscar nominee--the definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic, and the powerful, heroic st… OL20042944W
Melancholia and Moralism Melancholia and Moralism Douglas Crimp Crimp confronts the conservative gay politics that replaced the radical AIDS activism of the late 1980s and early 1990s. He shows that the cumulative losses from AIDS, including the waning of militan… OL3928600W
Bearing witness Bearing witness Philip M. Kayal 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… OL4312272W
Big Shot Big Shot Patricia Thomas "When Patricia Thomas set out to chronicle the search for an AIDS vaccine, she expected to find a classic struggle between ingenious young scientists and an exceptionally wily microbe. But she was in… OL8494861W