An examination of the AIDS crisis critiques the federal government for its inaction, health authorities for their greed, and scientists for their desire for prestige in the face of the AIDS pandemic, in a twentieth anniversary edition of the acclaimed expos�. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedie[...]
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidem[...]
A biography of Harvey Milk that presents a story of the life and death of the first openly gay man to be elected to US political office. It tells about the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power[...]