Hold Tight Gently Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS

Name: Hold Tight Gently Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS
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ISBN: 9781595589453

ISBN-10: 1595589457

ISBN-13: 9781595589453

Edition: 2014

Authors: Martin Duberman

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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, most of them gay men, were dead from AIDS-related complications--among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill.Meticulously researched and evocatively told, The Battlefield of AIDS is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two 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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 3/18/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.48" long x 1.03" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English