Turner, Simon Fisher.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra Entertainment 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BLUSummary: Set in 1985. Revolves around two very different men with AIDS, one fictional, one fictionalized. Roy Cohn personifies all the hypocrisy, delusion and callousness of the official response to the plague. Nothing shakes Roy's lack of empathy: even on his death bed, he's fighting with his gay nurse and taunting the woman he helped put to death, Ethel Rosenberg. The other patient is Prior Walter,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANGSickels, Carter
Summary: "Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hub City Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SICBurks, Ruth Coker
Summary: "In 1986, twenty-six-year-old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices a door to one of the rooms is painted red. Nurses are drawing straws to see who will tend to the patient crying for his mother on the other side, all of them unwilling tohelp. Ruth immediately steps into the quarantined space herself, comforting the young man in his last moments. Before she realizes what she's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURKS, RUTH COKER BURSummary: Employing a mix of documentary, performance, poetry, and music in his work, the transformative filmmaker Marlon Riggs was an unapologetic gay Black man who defied a culture of silence and shame to speak his truth with resounding joy and conviction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SIGAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AlvAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVPixley, Marcella Fleischman
Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PIXRawl, Paige.
Summary: "A teenager's memoir of the experinces of bullying, being HIV positive and surviving the experiences to become a force for positive change in this world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 921 RAWSummary: This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORSummary: Story of two competing lawyers who join together to sue a prestigious Philadelphia law firm when the firm fires one of them because he has AIDS.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHISummary: A difficult look at a country whose children are being orphaned at an alarming rate due to AIDS, their lack of education, and how they try to survive living in one of the poorest countries in the world. Includes interviews with President Bill Clinton, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IWeissman, David
Summary: Explores the impact of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco during the 1980s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEGaitskill, Mary
Summary: The friendship between Alison, a young woman struggling with her ruined career as a fashion model, and Veronica, an older eccentric and proofreader, survives Alison's return to the world of fashion and Veronica's battle with AIDS.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIStrub, Sean O'Brien
Summary: The political activist and founder of "POZ" magazine recounts his experiencesin New York during the height of the AIDS epidemic, his own transforming diagnosis with HIV, and his efforts as the executive director of the Sero Project.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STRUB, SEAN O'BRIEN STRSummary: How did an 89-year old grandmother turn a chance encounter into a revolution? In a small country town in Canada in 2004, ex-pat Australian Norma Geggie had a glimmer of an idea-a plan to support grandmothers in South Africa who had lost their children to AIDS and struggled to support their grandchildren. The idea took off and soon grew to involve thousands of grannies who combined efforts to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Duberman, Martin B
Summary: "In December 1995, the FDA approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, over 318,000 people had died from AIDS-related complications--among them were the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. ...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.9792 DUBJones, Cleve
Summary: A longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist offes an account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, CLEVE JONMankell, Henning
Summary: When archaeologist Louse Cantor returns to Sweden from a dig in Greece, her world collapses with the discovery of her only child dead in his bed. Henrik turns out to have led multiple lives and held many secrets--including his HIV-positive status--that she knew nothing about, and part of her shock over his death stems from the realization that he concealed so much from her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS MANSummary: An extraordinary video diary of living with AIDS. Told with guts and humor by longtime companions Tom Joslin and Mark Massi, this powerful documentary celebrates the human spirit while capturing the emotional challenges of living with a fatal illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SILCoben, Harlan
Summary: When Dr. Bruce Grey and Dr. Harvey Riker find a cure for AIDS, two young lovers, popular TV journalist Sara Lowell, and Knicks star Michael Silverman, find themselves inextricably caught up in the political double dealings involved in the discovery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COBKushner, Tony.
Contents: pt. 1. Millennium approaches -- pt. 2. Perestroika.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Theatre Communications Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 KUSSummary: After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006