Victory deferred
Subtitle: how AIDS changed gay life in America
By: John-Manuel Andriote.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: AIDS (Disease) -- United States -- History; Gay men -- United States -- Diseases; AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- United States; Gay liberation movement -- United States
Description: 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 truly remarkable 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 nations most powerful institutions.

Based on hundreds of interviews with those at the forefront of the medical, political, and cultural responses to the disease. Victory Deferred 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-459) and index.