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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
In 1986 John Whittier Treat went to Tokyo on sabbatical to write a book about the literature of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But once there, he found himself immersed in the emergence of a new kind of Holocaust, AIDS, and the sweeping denial, hysteria, and projection with which Japan - a place where "there are no homosexuals" - tried to insulate itself from the epidemic.
Great Mirrors Shattered is a compelling memoir of a gay man thoroughly familiar with...
Author
Publisher
Westview Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
The untold story in the AIDS crisis is that of the mobilization of the gay community. Bearing Witness is a study of how a community-based initiative - Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York - overcame the formidable obstacles of homophobia and fear of AIDS, and the resulting lack of an adequate response from political and health organizations. Philip Kayal shows how volunteers at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) confront their deepest fears about being...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"In record numbers, Americans are reaching out to Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean to help combat AIDS. Yet with more than one million people currently infected and half a million already dead, the U.S. ranks among the top ten most severe AIDS epidemics in the world. STD and HIV numbers are up, and for certain demographics they are skyrocketing. All the same, treatment is below what is available in Africa and Asia, and Americans are not getting sex...
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