Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
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
The AIDS conspiracy	Nicoli Nattrass	Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social…	OL16263702W
Sojourner	B. Michael Hunter	Anthology of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from the New York City-based Black gay men's writing collective, Other Countries.	OL18210742W
The Lesbian and gay studies reader	David M. Halperin,Henry Abelove	Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studi…	OL18239976W
Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic	Richard Andrew McKay	The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Y…	OL19734000W
When We Rise	Cleve Jones	Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were. Like thousands of other young people, Jones, ne…	OL20041480W
Epistemology of the closet	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick	Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati…	OL2007273W
Massage	Henry Flesh	lthough it has been hailed as a masterpiece by writers as disparate as David Sedaris and Kaylie Jones, MASSAGE will no doubt be assailed as politically incorrect because of its chilling view of a New…	OL2028969W
Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set	Staci Boris,Rock Hushka,Jonathan D. Katz	This slipcased boxed set contains the two volumes: Art AIDS America, published in 2015 to coincide with the original exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum, and the new book Art AIDS America Chicago. Art A…	OL21345695W
Funeral Diva	Pamela Sneed	A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.	OL21903295W
Personal Dispatches	John Preston	No sooner had the first generation of gay writers emerged in this country than they found themselves caught up in the violent maelstron of the AIDS epidmeic. Here are their reports from the midst of …	OL2651402W
Goldenboy	Michael Nava	By the beginning of Goldenboy, Henry has become sober, finding spirituality in his recovery while becoming further engaged in gay activism. He decides to assist a Los Angeles attorney who is dying of…	OL2670280W
Guess Again	Bernard Cooper	A collection of short stories covers the themes of family, sexuality, loss, love, and AIDS.	OL2960420W
Pedro and Me	Judd Winick	Pedro Zamora changed lives. When the HIV-positive AIDS educator appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, he taught millions of viewers about being gay and living with AIDS. Pedro's roommate o…	OL3366050W
Breaking the conspiracy of silence	Donald E. Messer	More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the co…	OL3753824W
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
In memory of Angel Clare	Christopher Bram	A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male…	OL503318W
Acqua calda	Keith McDermott	As actor Gerald prepares to die from AIDS, he receives a last chance to perform in Sicily and finds himself living in Italy and falling in love with another actor when he thought he would be dying in…	OL5861426W
AIDS Conspiracy Theories	Jim Campbell	Political prisoner and AIDS activist David Gilbert exposes the right-wing, racist and homophobic foundations of conspiracy theories surrounding the origins of AIDS, and shows how these in fact serve …	OL8099513W
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