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AIDS activist : Michael Lynch and the politics of community / Ann Silversides.
- Title
- AIDS activist : Michael Lynch and the politics of community / Ann Silversides.
- Author
- Silversides, Ann, 1952-
- Publication
- Toronto : Between the Lines, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA644 A25 S558 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 273 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "AIDS galvanized the politics of the gay community. The groups Michael Lynch helped organize and his prescient articles in The Body Politic sent messages of resistance and hope across North America. In telling his story and illuminating the issues, Ann Silversides draws on Lynch's diaries, letters, and poems; interviews with family, friends, and colleagues; film and newspaper records; and the papers of other leading AIDS activists. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- Michael Lynch and the politics of community
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-257) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / Ed Jackson -- 1. A Political Body -- 2. Blood and Stigma -- 3. Against Hysteria -- 4. Swansong to Activism? -- 5. These Waves of Dying Friends -- 6. The Yellow Glove -- 7. From Elegy to Action -- 8. The Charm of Politics -- 9. Community Strategies -- 10. To Make Dying Gay.
- ISBN
- 1896357733
- LCCN
- ^^2003363877
- OCLC
- 52071244
- SCSB-11553069
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library