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Softcover, 345 pages
"Novelist Schulman's compilation of the editorials, news articles, addresses, and book excerpts she has published in gay and feminist publications chronicles the growth of the gay and lesbian coalition, of ACT-UP, and of the Lesbian Avengers, 1981-93. Aspects of that development that she traces include early AIDS activism; battles against the Moral Majority and antigay violence; passage of the federal Hate Crime Statistics Act in 1990; the dispute over gay and lesbian books in the New York City public schools; the growth of federal AIDS initiatives and funding; and the rise of Ervin "Magic" Johnson as the ideal AIDS poster boy. To some of the pieces Schulman appends brief commentaries that update us on the development of the issues discussed and place them in greater perspective."
From Booklist