Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
By: Peter Staley
4.45
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. …
Want to Read $ 11.49"Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can't feel joy, and I'll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, the sparked a movement and helped it grow. But it was sustained by a desperate need for community, happiness, and love."-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
"Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can't feel joy, and I'll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, the sparked a movement and helped it grow. But it was sustained by a desperate need for community, happiness, and love."-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
"Being a spokesperson for a movement is a tricky thing. Being one for a movement that bills itself as leaderless in even trickier. Do it badly, and you'll squander a major opportunity for the movement, and get skewered within the group. Do it well, and you'll be asked to do it again and again, and then resented for it, especially if you enjoy it like I did. And you will deserve the resentment when, like me, you were young and cocky and still lacking the political maturity to share the limelight with less represented members of your AIDS community. 110"-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
"Being a spokesperson for a movement is a tricky thing. Being one for a movement that bills itself as leaderless in even trickier. Do it badly, and you'll squander a major opportunity for the movement, and get skewered within the group. Do it well, and you'll be asked to do it again and again, and then resented for it, especially if you enjoy it like I did. And you will deserve the resentment when, like me, you were young and cocky and still lacking the political maturity to share the limelight with less represented members of your AIDS community. 110"-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
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1. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
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4.26
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
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"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
2. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
By: David France
3.50
Format: 31 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and … read more
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3. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
By: William Greider , Randy Shilts
3.79
Format: None pages, Paperback
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more
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4. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
By: Paul Monette
3.90
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
This "tender and lyrical" memoir (New York Times Book Review) remains one of the most compelling do… read more
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5. A Queer History of the United States
By: Michael Bronski
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian… read more
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6. Dancer from the Dance
By: Andrew Holleran
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One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic r… read more
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7. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
By: Huw Lemmey
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Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more
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8. Mona of the Manor (Tales of the City, #10)
By: Armistead Maupin
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The tenth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Franci… read more
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9. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
By: Jonathan Kennedy
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more
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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
10. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
By: Harvey Fierstein
4.37
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
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11. Fire Island: A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
By: Jack Parlett
3.78
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* A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer * *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post… read more
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12. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
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4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
13. Miss Memory Lane: A Memoir
By: Colton Haynes
4.28
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A brutally honest and moving memoir of lust, abuse, addiction, stardom, and redemption from Arrow a… read more
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14. Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"
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16. It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
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18. Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
By: Peter Staley
4.45
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. … read more
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"Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can't feel joy, and I'll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, the sparked a movement and …"-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
"Being a spokesperson for a movement is a tricky thing. Being one for a movement that bills itself as leaderless in even trickier. Do it badly, and you'll squander a major opportunity for the movement…"-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service
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20. When Brooklyn Was Queer
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4.31
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21. Lesbian Love Story
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3.78
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