Between Certain Death and a Possible Future : : Queer Writing on Growing up With the Aids Crisis

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Call Number: 362.196 Be, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Social Science / Gender Studies / Between Certain Death And A Possible Future
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Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: An Introduction / Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore -- What Survival Means / Keiko Lane -- Surviving My Cousin / Bryan M. Holdman -- Class of '88 / Rigoberto Gonz̀lez -- Hockey Night in Canada / Berend McKenzie -- OPEN 24 HOURS / Nels P. Highberg -- Relationship to Fear / EJ Colen -- From the Inside: One Prisoner's Perspective / Timothy Jones -- To Make a Whore of / Emily Stern -- Andy Bell Made Me Gay / Dan Cullinane -- Lucky / Eddie Walker -- To Say Good-bye / Andrew R. Spieldenner -- Rea / Hugh Ryan -- Lie Back and Get Comfortable / Liz Rosenfeld -- Leaving Atlanta / Stephen H. Moore -- Old Testament / Alexander McClelland -- The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other's Lives / charles ryan long and Theodore (ted) Kerr) -- Scar Tissue / Adrian Ryan -- Got AIDS Yet? / Aaron Nielsen -- Please, We All Gonna Get It: Trans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure / Rory Elliott, with Alyssa Pariah and Gaysha Starr -- Fearing El Sida / Manuel Betancourt -- Looking for Ga͡tan / Ryan Conrad -- Jason & David / Dan Fishback -- Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS / Sassafras Lowrey -- Leftover Lovers / Edric Figueroa -- Elders / Miranda Recht -- Family Business / Kate Doyle Griffiths -- Taking the Guilt and Shame out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker / Laura LeMoon -- Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed / Ahmed Awadalla -- Red Shadows / Lester Eugene Mayers, edited by Mariel Stein -- The Long Ladder of Shame / C.L. Severson -- PrEP Will Not Save Us: The Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide / Kody Muncaster -- Disclosure / Robert Birch -- Half-Breed Blues / Charles Conn -- Status Symbol / Tony Correia -- Undead Disco: Variations on a Theme / Patrick Milian -- Across the Gap between Us / Liam October O'Brien.
"An enthralling and incisive anthology of personal essays on the persistent impact of the AIDS crisis on queer lives. Every queer person lives with the trauma of AIDS, and this plays out intergenerationally. Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer. Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story - essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?"-- Provided by publisher.

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