Dancing Against the Darkness: A Journey Through America in the Age of AIDS

by Steven Petrow

Examines the lives of dozens of individuals diagnosed with AIDS, reveals how their lives changed since contracting the virus, and looks at the reactions to their illness by friends, families and neighbors

218 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1990

About the author

The former president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, Steven Petrow has held senior editorial positions with Wired, Life, Fitness, Time Inc., and Waterfront Mediaand has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, the Washington Post Writers Syndicate, and The Advocate. His previous books include Dancing Against the Darkness (Macmillan, 1990); When Someone You Know has AIDS (Crown, 1993); The HIV Drug Book (Pocket, 1995); The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette (HarperCollins, 1995) and The Lost Hamptons (Arcadia, 2004).

Petrow is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Smithsonian Institution, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Weymouth Center for the Humanities and the Arts. Petrow appeared for more than a decade as a talking head on San Franciscos popular PBS-TV station, KQED, and has gone on several multi-city tours, appearing on NBCs Today Show, CNN, Fox News, and National Public Radio. "