Act Up!: The War Against HIV in the LGBTQ+ Community

by Rita Santos

The prejudice of the U.S. government and medical community allowed a disease that could have been contained to spread into a global pandemic. Readers will follow this devastating disease from its recently refuted origins in gay communities all the way to the current medical developments. This book will also describe how a powerful LGBTQ+ activist movement diverted its attention to the wreckage caused by the HIV and AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 90s. The history of disease is one that commonly receives too little attention in curricula, yet it has a huge impact on the development of our society.

112 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2018

Reviews

[Michelle Glatt]

Most important sentence in this book: "Although many factors contributed to the AIDS crisis, the biggest lesson to be learned from the American government's response to the AIDS crisis is the sad, but all too real, cost of intolerance."