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Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America [Hardcover]

John-manuel Andriote (Author)

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There is no question that AIDS has been, and continues to be, one of the most destructive diseases of the 20th century, taking thousands of lives, devastating communities, and exposing prejudice and bigotry. But AIDS has also been a disease of transformation - it has fuelled the American national gay civil rights movement, altered medical research and federal drug testing, shaken up both federal and local politics, and inspired a vast cultural outpouring. This account of the epidemic is the history of both the destruction and transformation wrought by AIDS. John-Manuel Andriote chronicles the impact of the disease from the coming-out revelry of the 1970s to the post-AIDS gay community of the 1990s, showing how it has changed both individual lives and national organizations. He tells the story of how a health crisis pushed a disjointed jumble of local activists to become a nationally visible and politically powerful civil rights movement, a full-fledged minority group challenging the authority of some of the nation's most powerful institutions. Based on hundreds of interviews with those at the forefront of the medical, political, and cultural responses to the disease, the text blends personal narratives with institutional histories and organizational politics to show how AIDS forced gay men from their closets and ghettos into the hallways of power to lobby and into the streets to protest.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Victory Deferred: AIDS Inside the Gay Community 19 Sep 2000
By James L. Holm - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
We have waited for a voice within the gay community to relate what AIDS has done and continues to do to our souls. Andiote bares that soul to the scrutiny of a verteran journalist and writer. He descibes the gay community's response to the AIDS epidemic. He outlines the growth the community made in the process. He isn't afraid to criticize where appropriate.

He tells the stories of the heroes of and the commentators on the epidemic. He delves, for example, into the internal machinations of a community trying to deal with safer sex and outlines both successes and failures. He indentifies the ongoing crisis and politics of promoting behavior change in the most intimate aspect of our lives. Through this type of no holds barred reporting that Andriote conveys the impact of AIDS on a community struggling to free itself from past and present disease related definitions.

Andriote's research is thorough, interviewing two hundred activitist and paritcipants. These individuals tell the story of a gay movement catapulted to the forefront of America's consciousness. He starts well before rhe empidemic and couches it in the context of a liberation stuggle. He tells the insider's story.

Victory Deferred will supplant Randy Shilt's And the Band Played On as the dinifitive story of one community heroically responding to the health crisis of the century.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A must read 18 Sep 2000
By "jkc41" - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Mr. Andriote's excellent book is a must read for anyone interested in the major events that have shaped the last three decades of the 20th century. It is an excellent and thoughtful overview of the tragic social, political and economic events that shaped the response to the AIDS epidemic. This book should be mandatory reading in colleges, medical schools and schools of public health.
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Author bias is far too evident to be useful in academia. 30 Jan 2012
By Robby - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book was suggested for a selected reading in my 300 level sociology class and I thought I would stop by Amazon and reflect a bit on how I (as a student) feel about it.

First off, I have been in college 3 years now, so I am certiantly not oblivious to the fact that about 90% of social science professors are complete and utter flakes that are about as deep as a mud puddle. That said, our reading from this book was about on par with any other discussion I have ever had on the subject of HIV/AIDS or homosexuality in school. Quite frankly, they look at the world with blinders on, and this work is very much a case in point.

As opposed to giving any kind of objective overview of the subject at hand, it prefaces everything based upon this whimsical notion of gay victim-hood, as if that alone is supposed to alleviate any sort of responsibility by the author to fairly and objectively cover material? I think not.

Having to do readings like this makes me very happy that I decided upon biology as a major, as opposed to the folks in social science dept who view the scientific method and the rules of evidence as only a rough guide for scholarly pursuits. 90% Supposition and conjecture is not what I pay over 200 dollars a credit hour for.

Since I only read small portions of this book, I still thought it correct to give the book 4 stars since it would be unfair of me to downgrade a work I have not completed. However, based upon what I did read, It is likely a safe assumption that the remainder is filled with more of the same.

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