The tragedy of today's gays / Larry Kramer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kramer, Larry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--United States--Social conditions.

Gay people.

AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects.

AIDS (Disease).

Gays--Government policy.

United States.

Social conditions.

Gay men--United States--Social conditions.

Gay men.

Gay people--Government policy--United States.

Homophobia--United States.

Homophobia.

Gay men--Social conditions.

Gays--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 108 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2005]

Summary:

With equal parts eloquence and urgency, common sense and patriotism, Kramer writes a concise history of AIDS and despairs that gays have become a tragic people: A lack of civic and political involvement even when faced with an increasingly powerful and hateful opposition. A sexual abandon so reckless that "we are murdering each other." A growing addiction to crystal-meth that defies logic. But Kramer offers gays a survival plan: "So many of Larry Kramer's messages to the younger generation are humanist messages, so old-fashioned in a callow age that we need Kramer to make them again," writes Naomi Wolf in her foreword. "Honor your dead. Take responsibility for yourselves. Grow up. Your lives have meaning-don't fuck and drug them away."

Contents:

Foreword / Naomi Wolf

Introduction / Larry Kramer

The Tragedy of Today's Gays

Afterword / Rodger McFarlane.

Other Format:

Online version: Kramer, Larry. Tragedy of today's gays.

ISBN:

1585424277

9781585424276

OCLC:

57549810