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Fight AIDS! How Activism, Art, and Protest Changed the Course of a Deadly Epidemic and Reshaped a Nation
By LONG, Michael G.
- ISBN
- 9781324053538
- Publisher
- Norton
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Reviewed on June 1, 2025 | Middle To High School
Gr 9 Up—Through engaging short chapters, Long outlines the courageous fight of AIDS activists from the first deaths in 1981 to the breakthrough drugs of the late 1990s that make HIV undetectable. He presents the history of fierce self-advocacy in the queer community by opening with brief introductions to the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the founding of the Gay Men's Health Project in New York City in the early 1970s. Then in a quick-paced narration, Long highlights the events of the epidemic chronologically. In response to the homophobic silence and ston...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
