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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
Men With Their Hands	Raymond Luczak	Growing up different is never easy, but Michael, a deaf young man from a small town, knows that he must find his true family beyond his biological one. He struggles and fails to find others of his ki…	OL13751450W
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
Public sex/gay space	William L. Leap	Male homosexual activity in public and semipublic locations is a central but seldom explored dimension of gay culture around the world. The majority of existing research emphasizes the impersonality …	OL18320056W
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
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
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
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
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
An arrow's flight	Mark Merlis	The siege of Troy has dragged on for ten years, with no end in sight, when an oracle supplies the Greeks with the recipe for victory. All they need is Pyrrhus, son of the fallen Achilles. But Pyrrhus…	OL2756046W
Guess Again	Bernard Cooper	A collection of short stories covers the themes of family, sexuality, loss, love, and AIDS.	OL2960420W
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