Massageguy99 Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 I am not sure if I should post this here or not. Reading another post made me think of this and I felt like it belongs in this sub just as much as any other. Has anyone listened to Fiasco the aids crisis on Audible? I have read a lot of literature and listened to a lot of audio for this time period. I was surprised to learn new things from this audio. I enjoyed it and it made me want to listen to more things. I admit i didn't come out until long after the aids crisis so I didn't live through it and most people I know who lost friends during that period are few. does anyone have any other suggestions for gay history be it Aids or any other time period. I love reading about our past and how we have improved and in some ways regressed. I have also read many books on the upstairs lounge fire which I found very informative. + Charlie and + Lucky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massageguy99 Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 One of my first exposure to our history was a play called Elegies For Angels, Punks and Raging Qu**ns. I grew up in a religious household where I didn't ever hear the term gay until I was 15. I had heard fa**s and only that term was used as they were sinners etc. I was 23 when I watched that play and only newly out but it ignited a passion for me to learn more of my own history. Information I felt that has basically been hidden from me. I also grew up in a religious school so being gay or even having sex was never discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 AIDS is an acronym, thus capital letters. pubic_assistance, + Charlie and + azdr0710 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudynate Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 You should read Christopher Isherwood's early works, set in gay Berlin in the 1930's as fascism was sweeping Europe. - There are several -"Mr. Norris Changes Trains," "Good-Bye to Berlin" are the ones I can think of, but there were quite a few. musclestuduws, thomas and + Charlie 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc in Calif Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 3 hours ago, Lucky said: AIDS is an acronym, thus capital letters. In American English, yes. But they don't capitalize all letters of acronyms in British English: Aids, Nato, Covid, Unesco, etc. + augustus, Massageguy99, Monarchy79 and 2 others 1 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massageguy99 Posted February 12, 2023 Author Share Posted February 12, 2023 4 hours ago, Rudynate said: You should read Christopher Isherwood's early works, set in gay Berlin in the 1930's as fascism was sweeping Europe. - There are several -"Mr. Norris Changes Trains," "Good-Bye to Berlin" are the ones I can think of, but there were quite a few. Thank you for the recommendation. + augustus and Marc in Calif 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 Jonathan Katz, Gay American History, is a good place to start. Massageguy99 and Marc in Calif 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 3 hours ago, Marc in Calif said: In American English, yes. But they don't capitalize all letters of acronyms in British English: Aids, Nato, Covid, Unesco, etc. The Guardian style guide specifies initial capitals for acronyms that are pronounced as a word and all capitals if the letters are read separately, thus Aids and HIV. In general Australian usage it's a bit more random. You rarely see QANTAS or ANZAC but will see AIDS. Marc in Calif 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Here are two books to consider: Randy Shilts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the_Band_Played_On Abraham Verghesehttps://www.amazon.com/My-Own-Country-Doctors-Story/dp/0679752927 + Charlie, Massageguy99 and thomas 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Client1985 Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Audible books: All The Young Men by Ruth C Burkes. A nurses view. Shows compassion and love to people with Aids. How to Survive a Plague by David France. A very accurate story of the Aids timeline. Talks about the trials,protests, act up. Not about Aids but gay themed: Double Life by Shane, Norman Sunshine. A gay couple working in Hollywood in the 70's and on. All I Could Bare by Craig Seymour. A colleges student that casually worked as an Adult dancer in Washingtion D C. It's a bio. Massageguy99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 The Gay Militants by Donn Teal (Stein and Day, 1971) is still available on Amazon. It is a chronicle of the explosion of the gay liberation movement by a participant in the years around the Stonewall riot. [Full disclosure: Donn and I had a brief affair in the mid-1960s, when he was still a closeted high school teacher, and I was too far out of the closet for his comfort.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrone Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Gay New York https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/george-chauncey/gay-new-york/9780786723355/ + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted February 13, 2023 Share Posted February 13, 2023 Charles Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis (1997) also traces gay life in American cities from around 1940 through the AIDS epidemic. Smokey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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