Stonewall Strong: Gay Men’s Heroic Fight for Resilience, Good Health, and a Strong Community
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442258233 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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He recounts the harrowing early days of the recognition of the devastation of AIDS, his responses to becoming HIV-infected, while insightfully telling the parallel narrative of the evolution of the LGBT community, from pre-Liberation, to crisis management and beyond. (Kenneth Mayer, MD, Infectious Disease Attending and Director of HIV Prevention Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Medical Research Director,The Fenway Institute)As John-Manuel Andriote writes about himself, he tells, in bits and pieces, the story of us all. Herek, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis; Author of the blog Beyond Homophobia (beyondhomophobia/)) . (Gregory M. How the LGBTQ community refuse to lay down a
Andriote regularly speaks to audiences at conferences and universities, is interviewed and profiled by print and broadcast media, and has been an adjunct communication professor at Eastern Connecticut State University.. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and leading LGBT publications across America. He is the author of Victory Deferre
We go inside individuals’ hearts and groups’ missions to see a community that works, plays, and even prays together. health journalist John-Manuel Andriote didn’t expect to mark the twenty-fifth year of the HIV-AIDS epidemic in 2006 by coming out in the Washington Post about his own recent HIV diagnosis. When and how had he become resilient? He searched his journals for answers in his own life story. He frames pivotal moments in recent history as manifestations of gay men's resilience, from the years of secrecy and subversion before the 1969 Stonewall riots; through the coming of age, heartbreak, and politica