'Los Angeles The Voices' in OBA Collectie

The Life and Death of ACT UP/LA explores the history of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Los Angeles, part of the militant anti-AIDS movement of the 1980s and 1990s. ACT UP/LA battled government, medical, and institutional neglect of the AIDS epidem...

This collection gives voice to the people-- those with HIV, as well as their caregivers-- who do battle at the front line of the epidemic.

Book Description

This groundbreaking study issued by the Racial and Economic Justice Initiative of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, documents the correlation between three forms of social oppression - homophobia, racism and poverty - with the risk-taking behavio...