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• Art AIDS America

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  Exhibition catalog from the groundbreaking 2015 exhibit of 30 years of art made in response to the AIDS epidemic in the United States.

• Patient Zero and the Making of the Aids Epidemic

  McKay, Richard A.

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  Meticulously researched, myth smashing book that corrects the record on the so-called “patient zero” of the AIDS epidemic.

• A Quilt for David

  Reigns, Steven,

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  Poetry told in short, occasionally haiku-like entries about the lives of Dr. David Acer, a dentist, and the patients who accused him of infecting them with HIV in Florida in the 1980s.

• The Prettiest Star

  Sickels, Carter,

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  A novel set in 1980s Ohio about a young man who returns to the small town of his youth during his battle with AIDS. His family is wary and uninformed and when the townsfolk react to his arrival with homophobic taunts the family dynamics strain even…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• BPM (Beats per minute)

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  French film that focuses on the interpersonal relationships between the members of ACT UP Paris.

• Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

  Queer Writing on Growing Up With the AIDS Crisis

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  An anthology of 36 personal essays that focus on the generation that came of age in the midst of the AIDS epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.

• For My Brothers

  Abramson, Mark, 1952-

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  Prolific memoirist Mark Abramson reflects on his life in San Francisco where he worked as a bartender during the years of the AIDS crisis. He writes about his encounters with the well-known, and the lesser known who deserve to be remembered.

• The Gifts of the Body

  Brown, Rebecca, 1956-

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  A novel from 1995 about a home health worker in Seattle and the AIDS patients she cares for. “The narrator brings to them the gifts of tender care, compassion and respect. They in turn give her the gifts of insight, openness and intimacy; they…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Let the Record Show

  a Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

  Schulman, Sarah, 1958-

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  Drawing on interviews with 188 members of ACT UP New York, Sarah Schulman charts the ups, and downs, of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, one of the most impactful activist groups of the twentieth century. An invaluable historical…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Empty Hands, a Memoir

  One Woman's Journey to Save Children Orphaned by AIDS in South Africa

  Ntleko, Abegail, Sister,

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  Memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Overcoming poverty and racism within the apartheid South African system, she saved hundreds of children, many of them orphaned by parents who died of AIDS.

• To Make the Wounded Whole. The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

  Royles, Dan

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  Based on archival research and oral histories, a history of the African American responses, often grassroots, to the AIDS epidemic over the past 40 years.

• Hold Tight Gently

  Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

  Duberman, Martin B.,

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  From acclaimed historian Martin Duberman, a memorial to two artists who were lost too young to the AIDS epidemic, white singer/activist Michael Callen (1955-93) and black poet/cultural worker Essex Hemphill (1957-95).

• We Were Here

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  A documentary film focusing on five people who describe the devastation of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, as well as how they came together to provide care and the lasting transformation on the community.