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Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

Title: Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS / Martin Duberman.
Author: Duberman, Martin B.
Publication: New York : The New Press, [2014]

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xii, 356 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had died from AIDS-related complications--among them were the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Two Lives, Two Deaths is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic. Callen, a white gay Midwesterner who moved to New York, became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of willful neglect; Hemphill, an African American gay man, contributed to the black gay and lesbian flowering in Washington, D.C., with poetry of searing intensity and introspection. A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, and identity and the politics of AIDS activism beyond ACT-UP, Two Lives, Two Deaths captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair."--

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-329) and index.

Call Number

Sc E 15-403

ISBN

9781595589453 (hc.)
1595589457 (hc.)
9781595589651 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013039158

OCLC

862053069

Author

Duberman, Martin B., author.

Title

Hold tight gently : Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS / Martin Duberman.

Publisher

New York : The New Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-329) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-403

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