Never Silent : ACT UP and My Life in Activism
by
Peter Staley
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1641608447
ISBN-13
9781641608442
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Imprint
Chicago Review Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 6th, 2023
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
413 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 22.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Autobiography: generalPressure groups & lobbyingHIV / AIDS
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Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone whos thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world. Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright of Angels in America
2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David Frances How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism.
In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex.
A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash PowerACT UPin the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pressuring the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and three administrations to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives.
Staley, a shrewd strategist with nerves of steel, organized some of the groups most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms. Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to followyears filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence.
Never Silent is guaranteed to inspire the activist within all of us.
2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
The previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David Frances How To Survive A Plague, Peter Staley, including his continuing activism.
In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex.
A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash PowerACT UPin the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pressuring the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and three administrations to finally respond with research that ultimately saved millions of lives.
Staley, a shrewd strategist with nerves of steel, organized some of the groups most spectacular actions, from shutting down trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to putting a giant condom over the house of Senator Jesse Helms. Never Silent is the inside story of what brought Staley to ACT UP and the explosive and sometimes painful years to followyears filled with triumph, humiliation, joy, loss, and persistence.
Never Silent is guaranteed to inspire the activist within all of us.
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