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Peter Staley
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Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
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"Staley has a substantial ego (which he probably would be the first to acknowledge), but he’s still capable of being thoughtfully self-critical, looking back at his decades of AIDS activism with both rightful pride and rueful acknowledgment of where h"
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"My pick for book club ❤️
Loved this, but I'm not surprised." |
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"Beautifully compelling, candid, clear-eyed, and powerful. This record of gay history is profoundly important to me as a lesbian and public health worker. Grateful to Peter for writing this and for his monumental contributions during the AIDS crisis a"
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"Must read,remember, and never forget. Staley was there in the beginning, thru the trenches, and still alive and kicking. This book is so human ,relatable, and nostalgic. May we never forget and always appreciate the activism that pushed science forwa"
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“Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can't feel joy, and I'll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, the sparked a movement and helped it grow. But it was sustained by a desperate need for community, happiness, and love.”
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
“Being a spokesperson for a movement is a tricky thing. Being one for a movement that bills itself as leaderless in even trickier. Do it badly, and you'll squander a major opportunity for the movement, and get skewered within the group. Do it well, and you'll be asked to do it again and again, and then resented for it, especially if you enjoy it like I did. And you will deserve the resentment when, like me, you were young and cocky and still lacking the political maturity to share the limelight with less represented members of your AIDS community. 110”
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
“and loving community. All of our emotions were heightened and intense, frustrating and beautiful at the same time. It was a bubble filled with demonstrations, endless meetings, nights of ecstasy and dancing, nights of wheat-pasting, hospitals and memorials, boyfriends, new friends, breakups, phone zaps, phone trees, shame-free sex, sex between proud sluts, sex that was political, that said fuck-you to the haters, more endless meetings, kiss-ins, kissing hello on the lips, kissing lesbians, selling T-shirts and buttons, covering an entire city in SILENCE = DEATH stickers, heckling presidents, getting arrested with your best friends, chanting,”
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
― Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
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