Body Counts
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Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

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Body Counts

A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

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The founder of POZ magazine shares "a captivating…eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemic" ( Next ) and "a moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay man's life" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, DC, from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the US Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital's political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in shame. When the AIDS epidemic hit in the early 1980s, Strub was living in New York and soon found himself attending "more funerals than birthday parties." Scared and angry, he turned to radical activism to combat discrimination and demand research. Strub takes you through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the organization that transformed a stigmatized cause into one of the defining political movements of our time. From the New York of Studio 54 and Andy Warhol's Factory to the intersection of politics and burgeoning LGBT and AIDS movements, Strub's story crackles with history. He recounts his role in shocking AIDS demonstrations at St. Patrick's Cathedral as well as at the home of US Sen­ator Jesse Helms. With an astonishing cast of characters, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Keith Haring, Bill Clinton, and Yoko Ono, this is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era: "A page-turner…[with] the suspense and horror of Paul Monette's memoir Borrowed Time and the drama of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart ….What a lot of action—and life—there is in this gripping book" ( The Washington Post ).

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Publisher
Scribner
Year
2014
ISBN
9781451661972
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. December 1989, New York City
  4. Chapter 1: Out of Iowa
  5. Chapter 2: The Way Out
  6. Chapter 3: Tennessee and Me
  7. Chapter 4: Sphere of Influence
  8. Chapter 5: Making Movement
  9. Chapter 6: Virus and Violence
  10. Chapter 7: Kentucky Fried Closet
  11. Chapter 8: The End of a Day Like This
  12. Chapter 9: Of Mousetraps and Men
  13. Chapter 10: Stigma and Solidarity
  14. Chapter 11: Testing and Telling
  15. Chapter 12: The Living Room
  16. Chapter 13: Rolo-dead File
  17. Chapter 14: Silence=Death
  18. Chapter 15: Unexpected Expire
  19. Chapter 16: Keith and Swen
  20. Chapter 17: Cardinal Sin
  21. Chapter 18: Hope Is Hope
  22. Chapter 19: Running Man
  23. Chapter 20: Taking the Helms
  24. Chapter 21: Today Is a Good Day
  25. Chapter 22: The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
  26. Chapter 23: Ask and Tell
  27. Chapter 24: Launch
  28. Chapter 25: Firsts
  29. Chapter 26: Pharma Watching
  30. Chapter 27: Creating Communities
  31. Chapter 28: Dark Mark
  32. Chapter 29: Feeling Our Pain
  33. Chapter 30: Barebacking
  34. Chapter 31: Eugene and Angel
  35. Chapter 32: Memento Mori
  36. Chapter 33: Recall
  37. Chapter 34: Lazarus
  38. Chapter 35: Stephen
  39. Chapter 36: Postpartum
  40. Chapter 37: Naked to the World
  41. Chapter 38: HIV Is Not a Crime
  42. Interview with Sean Strub
  43. Acknowledgments
  44. About Sean Strub
  45. Index
  46. Copyright