Howard Brown (1924 - 1975)

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Love and Anger : Essays on AIDS, Activism, and Politics by Peter Franzblau Cohen

This is one of the first books to take an interdisciplinary approach to AIDS activism and politics by looking at the literary response to the disease, class issues, and the AIDS activist group ACT UP. Containing both literary analysis and interviews with activists, Love and Anger integrates fact and fiction in a scholarly, yet comprehensible manner. It will provide readers with a deeper understanding of AIDS activism, the politics of AIDS, and the attitudes and feelings of those affected by the disease.

The Poetry of Healing : A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity, and Desire by Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo is acclaimed as an important contemporary poet on the basis of his two books of poetry The Other Man Was Me and What the Body Told. In The Poetry of Healing Campo uses his gift for language to explicate and delineate the connections between being a doctor and a poet, a writer and a healer, a gay man and an educator. Campo's topic is always the body and he understands its fragility and resistance, its power and its grace. Campo's prose is precise and poetic; his insights are revelations. The Poetry of Healing is a work of literary grace and compassion--a memoir that illuminates the world with new light and urgency.

Policing Public Sex : Queer Politics and the Future of AIDS Activism by Dangerous Bedfellows (Editor), Ephen Glenn Colter (Editor), Wayne Hoffman (Editor), Eva Pendleton (Editor)

The AIDS epidemic has had a myriad of social and political consequences, not the least of which has been a radical social rethinking about sexuality. While AIDS has encouraged a more open discussion of sexual activity, it has also brought a backlash. Policing Public Sex, a collection of 25 essays by educators, activists, sociologists, and community spokespersons, is enormously smart. This volume helps us consider and contend with the political and social campaigns that seek to control or monitor manifestations of sexuality considered "public"--from safe-sex education to sex clubs. Well written, this book is on the cutting edge of social change and AIDS education.

Brown, Howard (1924-1975)

PHYSICIAN, HEALTH ADMINISTRATOR, ACTIVIST

A physician, health administrator and activist Howard was born in Peoria, Illinois and attended Hiram College in Ohio. After medical school, he pursued a career in localized health care. In 1966 he was appointed New York City's first commissioner of health and health services administrator but in 1968, word of a potential New York Times expose of homosexual appointees in Mayor John V. Lindsay's administration caused him to resign.

After Stonewall, he questioned his decision to be closeted and in October of 1973 publicly proclaimed his sexual orientation and spoke out about the problems faced by gay doctors at a symposium on human sexuality. He went on to be a founding member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and sat on the boards of the Lambda Foundation and the Institute for Human Identity.

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Health Care -- Howard Brown Health Center

Howard Brown Health Center is recognized internationally for its role in important research initiatives focusing on gay men's health issues. In the late 1970s, Howard Brown participated in the nationwide study that led to the development of the Hepatitis B vaccine. Currently, the Center is involved in three notable HIV/AIDS research projects.

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