The Tragedy of Today's Gays
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: April 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781585424276
Subjects: Political Freedom & Security - General; Social Science; Government policy; Aids (Psychosocial Aspects); Homosexuality; Sociology; Gender Studies; Politics/International Relations; Politics - Current Events; Gay Studies; Social Science / Gay Studies; Gay men; Social conditions; United States; Gays
First sentence: OF COURSE, I HAD HEARD OF FAGGOTS, growing up as I did in San Francisco in the 1970s; it seemed that everyone in town, for a time, gay and straight, was reading it.
Description: With equal parts eloquence and urgency, common sense and patriotism, Kramer writes a concise history of AIDS and despairs that gays have become a tragic people: A lack of civic and political involvement even when faced with an increasingly powerful and hateful opposition. A sexual abandon so reckless that "we are murdering each other." A growing addiction to crystal-meth that defies logic. But Kramer offers gays a survival plan: "So many of Larry Kramer's messages to the younger generation are humanist messages, so old-fashioned in a callow age that we need Kramer to make them again," writes Naomi Wolf in her foreword. "Honor your dead. Take responsibility for yourselves. Grow up. Your lives have meaning-don't fuck and drug them away."