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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : The New Press, [2014]Description: xii, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781595589453 (hc.)
  • 1595589457 (hc.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.97/920092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • RC606.55.D83 A3 2014
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, [this book] 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, [this book] captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair."--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-329) and index.

"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, [this book] 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, [this book] captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair."--Provided by publisher.

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