Reports from the holocaust: The making of an AIDS activist
by Larry Kramer
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This is an expanded version of a book by a leading AIDS critic and founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis. It contains new material from the author's letters, speeches and articles from 1988 to 1993 on the AIDS crisis.Tags
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Harrowing, inspirational journalism. It finishes with an essay that detracts from its overall value, which is a particular shame in consideration of the inspired pugnacious polemics that make up the bulk of this work.
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Larry Kramer co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis, the world's first provider of services to people with HIV and 1987, he founded ACT UP, the worldwide advocacy and protest organization.
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- Alternate titles
- Reports from the holocaust: the story of an AIDS activist
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Epigraph
- They have spoken against you everywhere,
But weigh this song with the great and their pride;
I made it out of a mouthful of air,
Their children's children shall say they have lied.
- "He Thinks of Those Who Have... (show all) Spoken Evil of His Beloved" by W. B. Yeats - Dedication
- For Rodger McFarlane
- First words
- Harvey Milk was shot and killed in San Francisco on November 27th by Dan White.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Afterword - I've wanted to be a Penguin author for as long as I can remember, along with D. H. Lawrence!
- Blurbers
- Sontag, Susan; Shilts, Randy
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, LGBTQ+, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Sexuality and Gender Studies, History
- DDC/MDS
- 362.1 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses
- LCC
- RC607 .A26 .K73 — Medicine Internal medicine Internal medicine Specialties of internal medicine Immunologic diseases. Allergy
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- 223
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- 145,688
- Reviews
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 5
