Pandemics

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To Make a Whore Of

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, the author describes her mother’s ailing health and eventual death from AIDS. 18 $1.80 Add
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Andy Bell Made Me Gay

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter concerns the author’s youthful sexual experiences, and how he felt that he was going to die because he was gay. 10 $1.00 Add
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To Say Good-Bye

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This essay details the author’s HIV diagnosis in the late 1990s, and how he feels discomfited by the Bay Area because of his history there. 10 $1.00 Add
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Rea

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, the author describes his realtionship with a sexual health nurse. 4 $0.40 Add
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Lie Back and Get Comfortable

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This essay concerns the youthful experiences of a Jewish woman as she confronts the anti-queer predudice of her mother. 7 $0.70 Add
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Leaving Atlanta

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter describes the author’s friendship with their uncle, who was gay and died of AIDS when the Moore was young. 7 $0.70 Add
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The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other’s Lives

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter is a dialogue betweeen two activists who met at the International AIDS Conference in 2008. 9 $0.90 Add
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Scar Tissue

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, the author discusses how he "grew up on a steady diet of AIDS fear," and the impact that has had on adult life. 10 $1.00 Add
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Got AIDS Yet?

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … 6 $0.60 Add
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Please, We All Gonna Get It

Trans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this conversation, the authors share their experiences accessing health care, their thoughts on trans representation and chosen families, their relationship to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and their … 12 $1.20 Add
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Fearing El Sida

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, Betancourt explores the personalization of AIDS in Columbia, where it was known as El Sida. 11 $1.10 Add
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Looking for Gaëtan

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This chapter explores the historicization of the AIDS epidemic, and discusses some myths about Gaëtan Dugas, the so-called "Patient Zero." 9 $0.90 Add
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Jason & David

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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In this chapter, the author discusses his attempts to create a performance piece that juxtaposed images from his childhood with stories and images from the lives of gay artists who had died of … 11 $1.10 Add
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Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS

From: Between Certain Death and a Possible Future

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This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … 7 $0.70 Add