Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival

Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival

The founder of POZ magazine shares â€œa captivatingâ€¦eyewitness account from inside the AIDS epidemicâ€ (Next) and â€œa moving, multi-decade memoir of one gay manâ€™s lifeâ€ (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 capitalâ€™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 â€œmore funerals than birthday parties.â€ 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 Warholâ€™s Factory to the intersection of politics and burgeoning LGBT and AIDS movements, Strubâ€™s story crackles with history. He recounts his role in shocking AIDS demonstrations at St. Patrickâ€™s Cathedral as well as at the home of US SenÂator Jesse Helms. With an astonishing cast of characters, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Keith Haring, Bill Clinton, and Yoko Ono, is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era: â€œA page-turnerâ€¦[with] the suspense and horror of Paul Monetteâ€™s memoir Borrowed Time and the drama of Larry Kramerâ€™s play The Normal Heartâ€¦.What a lot of actionâ€”and lifeâ€”there is in this gripping bookâ€ (The Washington Post).
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-09-09
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781451661965

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2014-09-09
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781451661965

Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival

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