{"id":118,"date":"2021-12-14T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/?p=118"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T09:54:46","slug":"book-club-aids-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/2021\/12\/14\/book-club-aids-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: AIDS Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"alignfull has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">December <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/F0B02249-6459-4BCF-86A5-1085D7FF2222.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/F0B02249-6459-4BCF-86A5-1085D7FF2222.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/F0B02249-6459-4BCF-86A5-1085D7FF2222-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/F0B02249-6459-4BCF-86A5-1085D7FF2222-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/F0B02249-6459-4BCF-86A5-1085D7FF2222-768x768.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption><em>Recommended by the Lit &amp; Phil<\/em>  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.litandphil.org.uk\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.litandphil.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.litandphil.org.uk<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator alignfull\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"1360\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"119\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/?attachment_id=119\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD.jpeg 893w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD-197x300.jpeg 197w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD-672x1024.jpeg 672w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/C4E794B8-9BBE-439F-9DEB-BD32B9C7F3BD-768x1170.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tales of the City <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">Armistead Maupin | Fiction <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignfull is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">For more than three decades Armistead Maupin&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>T ales of the City&nbsp;<\/em>has blazed its own trail through popular culture from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maupin&#8217;s other novels include&nbsp;<em>Maybe the Moon&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>The Night Listener<\/em>. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation&#8217;s Pioneer Award. He lives in San Francisco with his husband, the photographer Christopher Turner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Inspiring, uplifting and necessary reading.<\/p><cite>Steve Silberman author of Neurotribes, Financial Times<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-677x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"123\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/?attachment_id=123\" class=\"wp-image-123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-677x1024.jpeg 677w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-198x300.jpeg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-768x1162.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-1015x1536.jpeg 1015w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-1353x2048.jpeg 1353w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780-1200x1816.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/2A600EB4-2B4A-49AE-8C5A-B7DF9CFC9780.jpeg 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to Survive a Plague<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">David France | Non-fiction <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">How to Survive a Plague by David France is the riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic and the grass-roots movement of activists, many of them facing their own life-or-death struggles, who grabbed the reins of scientific research to help develop the drugs that turned HIV from a mostly fatal infection to a manageable disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the globe, the 15.8 million people taking anti-AIDS drugs today are alive thanks to their efforts. Not since the publication of Randy Shilts&#8217;s now classic And the Band Played On in 1987 has a book sought to measure the AIDS plague in such brutally human, intimate, and soaring terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Weaving together the stories of dozens of individuals, this is an insider&#8217;s account of a pivotal moment in our history and one that changed the way that medical science is practised worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>This superbly written chronicle will stand as a towering work in its field.<\/p><cite>Sunday Times<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/8ABC6BE5-C852-401B-9B46-B1962FF86217_4_5005_c.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"125\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/8ABC6BE5-C852-401B-9B46-B1962FF86217_4_5005_c.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/?attachment_id=125\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/8ABC6BE5-C852-401B-9B46-B1962FF86217_4_5005_c.jpeg 332w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/8ABC6BE5-C852-401B-9B46-B1962FF86217_4_5005_c-199x300.jpeg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Line of Beauty <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">Alan Hollinghurst | Alt-fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">It is the summer of 1983, and young Nick Guest, an innocent in the matters of politics and money, has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious new Tory MP, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their children Toby and Catherine. Nick had idolised Toby at Oxford, but in his London life it will be the troubled Catherine who becomes his friend and his uneasy responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens&#8217; world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Line of Beauty is novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man&#8217;s collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>The best-deserving Booker winner ever.<\/p><cite>The Sunday Times <\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/BD25165C-F787-4C6D-B0FA-01794A256F5F_4_5005_c-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"127\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/BD25165C-F787-4C6D-B0FA-01794A256F5F_4_5005_c-1.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/?attachment_id=127\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/BD25165C-F787-4C6D-B0FA-01794A256F5F_4_5005_c-1.jpeg 296w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/files\/2021\/12\/BD25165C-F787-4C6D-B0FA-01794A256F5F_4_5005_c-1-187x300.jpeg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Living and Loving in the age of AIDS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">Derek Frost | Memoir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">This is the tale of a devastating pandemic, of lives cut painfully short&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;it\u2019s also a love story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Derek, a distinguished designer, and J, a pioneering entrepreneur and creator of Heaven, the iconic gay dance club, met and fell in love more than 40 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the early 1980s their friends began to get sick and die&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;AIDS had arrived in their lives. When they got tested, J received what was then a death sentence: he was HIV Positive. While the onset of AIDS strengthened stigma and fear globally, they confronted their crisis with courage, humour and an indomitable resolve to survive. J\u2019s battle lasted six long years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning to spiritual reflection, yoga, nature&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;and always to love&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Derek describes a transformation of the spirit, how compassion and empathy rose phoenix-like from the flames of sickness and death, and how he and J founded the charity Aids Ark, which has helped to save more than 1,000 HIV Positive lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a story of joy and triumph, of facing universal challenges, of the great rewards that come from giving back. Derek speaks for a generation who lived through a global health crisis that many at the time refused even to acknowledge. His is a powerful story chronicling this extraordinary era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>A classic of our times\u0085 The work of a great English stylist in full maturity; a masterpiece.<\/p><cite>The Observer<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-tag-cloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/african\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-7 tag-link-position-1\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"African (1 item)\">African<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/aids-awareness-month\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-16 tag-link-position-2\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"AIDS Awareness Month (1 item)\">AIDS Awareness Month<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/alzheimers\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-44 tag-link-position-3\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Alzheimer&#039;s (1 item)\">Alzheimer&#039;s<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/black-history-month\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-3 tag-link-position-4\" style=\"font-size: 11.876923076923pt;\" aria-label=\"Black History Month (2 items)\">Black History Month<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/book-club\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-13 tag-link-position-5\" style=\"font-size: 22pt;\" aria-label=\"Book Club (8 items)\">Book Club<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/caribbean\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-8 tag-link-position-6\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Caribbean (1 item)\">Caribbean<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/conversion-therapy\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-35 tag-link-position-7\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Conversion Therapy (1 item)\">Conversion Therapy<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/covid-19\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-4 tag-link-position-8\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"COVID-19 (1 item)\">COVID-19<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/dementia\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-43 tag-link-position-9\" style=\"font-size: 11.876923076923pt;\" aria-label=\"Dementia (2 items)\">Dementia<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/diabetes\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-50 tag-link-position-10\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Diabetes (1 item)\">Diabetes<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/disability-history-month\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-14 tag-link-position-11\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Disability History Month (1 item)\">Disability History Month<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/elder-abuse\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-40 tag-link-position-12\" style=\"font-size: 11.876923076923pt;\" aria-label=\"Elder Abuse (2 items)\">Elder 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tag-link-position-22\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Perinatal (1 item)\">Perinatal<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/refugee\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-37 tag-link-position-23\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Refugee (1 item)\">Refugee<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/transgender\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-20 tag-link-position-24\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Transgender (1 item)\">Transgender<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/violence-against-lgbt-people\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-33 tag-link-position-25\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"Violence against LGBT people (1 item)\">Violence against LGBT people<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/world-alzheimers-day\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-47 tag-link-position-26\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"world alzheimer&#039;s day (1 item)\">world alzheimer&#039;s day<\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/tag\/world-religion-day\/\" class=\"tag-cloud-link tag-link-23 tag-link-position-27\" style=\"font-size: 8pt;\" aria-label=\"world religion day (1 item)\">world religion day<\/a><\/p>\n\n<ol class=\"has-avatars has-dates has-excerpts wp-block-latest-comments\"><li class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c3a7b4bb33b918354aaa7f1b18314f0e?s=48&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c3a7b4bb33b918354aaa7f1b18314f0e?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo wp-block-latest-comments__comment-avatar' height='48' width='48' \/><article><footer class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment-meta\"><span class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment-author\">M. L. Gray<\/span> on <a class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/phsi-edi\/2022\/05\/16\/international-day-against-homophobia-biphobia-and-transphobia\/#comment-122\">International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia<\/a><time datetime=\"2022-05-22T23:12:06+01:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment-date\">22 May 2022<\/time><\/footer><div class=\"wp-block-latest-comments__comment-excerpt\"><p>A wonderfully informative article on a very important topic, by a dear friend of mine. 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