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Moving Politics
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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… |
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The Lesbian and gay studies reader
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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… |
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Patient zero and the making of the AIDS epidemic
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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… |
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Epistemology of the closet
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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… |
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Like a Love Story
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Abdi Nazemian |
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing.
Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terr… |
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Punishing Disease
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Trevor Hoppe |
From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the di… |
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Art AIDS America / Art AIDS America Chicago Boxed Set
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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… |
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Beauty Salon
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Mario Bellatin |
A strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by family and friends, some of the sick have nowhere to finish out their days until a hair stylist decides to offer refuge. He ends up converting hi… |
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iVirgin Boy
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Peter Krummeck |
A white almost-18-year-old boy ‘borrows’ his mother’s car to celebrate his Matric results. Exceeding both the speed limit and the alcohol limit, he is arrested and placed overnight in police holding … |
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An arrow's flight
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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… |
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Guess Again
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Bernard Cooper |
A collection of short stories covers the themes of family, sexuality, loss, love, and AIDS. |
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Eighty-Sixed
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Feinberg, David B. |
In 1980, B. J. Rosenthal's only mission is to find himself a boyfriend and avoid setbacks like bad haircuts, bad sex, and Jewish guilt. In post-AIDS 1986, B.J.'s world has changed dramatically -- his… |
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Ceremonies
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Essex Hemphill |
Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of African-American men, feminism among men, and AIDS in the black community. |
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Angels in America
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Tony Kushner |
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for B… |
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry
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Mark Padilla |
In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through pro… |
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Loss within Loss
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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… |
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