AIDS Activist
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AIDS Activist

Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

AIDS Activist

Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community

About this book

Michael Lynch, the central figure of this book, was a long-time gay activist and a dynamic force in organizing an early response to the AIDS epidemic. Lynch's prescient articles in The Body Politic spoke to the gay communities of Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. His organizing efforts meant change and hope. AIDS Activist is a crisp and passionate introduction to a wide range of issues. Focusing on personal stories Silversides furnishes a snap-shot history of how the AIDS crisis unfolded and some of the heroic responses to it. Her emphasis on the politics of the gay community response makes this book unique.

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INDEX

Abbreviations
BL — Bill Lewis
KS — Kaposi’s sarcoma
ML — Michael Lynch
PCP — pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
PWA — People with AIDS
SL — Stefan Lynch
TBP — The Body Politic




AAN! See AIDS Action Now!
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. See AIDS
ACT. See AIDS Committee of Toronto
ACT UP (N.Y.), 126–27, 128, 130; proposal for “parallel track” for AIDS drugs, 180; at international AIDS conference (Montreal, 1989), 192–98; Montreal Manifesto, 193
Advocate, The, 14; attacking “gay lifestyle,” 19
aerosolized pentamidine, 120, 185, 206; organizing around use of, 128–30; taken by ML 140; government okays trial of, 147; available in Buffalo, 149; demand for trials of, 150; target of AAN! protest and first demo, 156–58, 160; taken at Parliament Hill protest (1988), 168; AAN! calls for end to trial using placebos, 177; made available through EDRP, 186–87; problems with availability, 187–88; breakthrough discussed at international AIDS conference, 192
“Age of Adhesiveness” (ML paper and book project), as a book project, 95, 96, 109; delivered as paper, 101, 161; plans to publish, 116; afraid of not finishing, 117; making plans with Hansen to finish, 232
AIDS, beginning of epidemic, 1, 2–3, 14–15; cases (early 1982), 17; first Canadian case, 17; named, 17; seen as “gay plague,” 19, 50, 55; statistical probability and moral judgement, 21; number of cases (fall 1982), 20; thought of as geographically specific, 23–24; hysteria about spreads, 25–26; first public forum in Toronto on, 30; and gay sexual activity, 30–31; focus on blood donations and screening, 33; number of cases in Canada (February 1983), 34; U.S. cases (March 1983), 31–32; epidemic gathers force in U.S., 41; lack of attention/action noted, 40–41; diagnosing, 47; dubbed “emerging epidemic” in Toronto (August 1983), 53; need to “normalize” as disease, 61; number of cases (1983, 1984), 71; reported cases (February ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS
  5. Foreword, by Ed Jackson
  6. Preface
  7. one: A Political Body
  8. two: Blood and Stigma
  9. three: Against Hysteria
  10. four: Swansong to Activism?
  11. five: These Waves of Dying Friends
  12. six: The Yellow Glove
  13. seven: From Elegy to Action
  14. eight: The Charm of Politics
  15. nine: Community Strategies
  16. ten: To Make Dying Gay
  17. Notes
  18. Index