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001 2013039158
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005 20150121081153.0
008 130926s2014 nyua b 001 0aeng
010 $a 2013039158
020 $a9781595589453 (hc.)
020 $z9781595589651 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
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050 00 $aRC606.55.D83$bA3 2014
082 00 $a616.97/920092$aB$223
084 $aSOC012000$aMED022020$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDuberman, Martin B.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aHold tight gently :$bMichael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS /$cMartin Duberman.
264 1 $aNew York :$bThe New Press,$c[2014]
300 $axii, 356 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had died from AIDS-related complications--among them were the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Two Lives, Two Deaths is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic. Callen, a white gay Midwesterner who moved to New York, became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of willful neglect; Hemphill, an African American gay man, contributed to the black gay and lesbian flowering in Washington, D.C., with poetry of searing intensity and introspection. A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, and identity and the politics of AIDS activism beyond ACT-UP, Two Lives, Two Deaths captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair."--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 307-329) and index.
600 10 $aCallen, Michael,$d1955-1993.
600 10 $aHemphill, Essex.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aHIV-positive persons$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aGay artists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0 $aGay singers$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aMEDICAL / AIDS & HIV.$2bisacsh