Martin Duberman

Dr. Martin Duberman Author of Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS (The New Press, $27.95 hb, less 10%). In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complications--among them the singer Michael Callen and the poet, essayist and anthologist Essex Hemphill. Meticulously researched and evocatively told, "Hold Tight Gently" is the celebrated historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic. Callen, a white gay Midwesterner who had moved to New York, became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of willful and homophobic denial under the Reagan administration; Hemphill, an African American gay man, contributed to the black gay and lesbian scene in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, with poetry of searing intensity and introspection and the continuation of Joe Beam's work with the anthology "Brother to Brother". A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, identity, and the politics of AIDS activism beyond ACT UP, "Hold Tight Gently" captures both a generation struggling to cope with the deadly disease and the extraordinary refusal of two men to give in to despair.

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In this revealing dual biography of Barbara Deming and David McReynolds, the prize-winning historian Martin Duberman offers a fascinating view into a vital historical milieu of activism, radical ideas, and homsexuality when the gay rights movement was still in its nascent stage.

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