Title: Victory deferred
First published: 1999
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 nation's 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 artfully 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.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), Diseases, Gay liberation movement, Gay men, History, Social aspects, Social aspects of AIDS (Disease), Social Justice, Social Change, Homosexuality, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Gay AIDS patients, Gay community, Aids (disease), united states, Aids (disease), social aspects, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ history, Stonewall Book Awards, collection:randy_shilts_award=finalist
Places: United States
LC classification: RA644.A25 A523 1999