Victory Deferred

How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America

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by John-Manuel Andriote

University of Chicago Press

Due/Published June 1999, 488 pages, cloth

ISBN 0226020495

Andriote chronicles the impact of AIDS on gay America from the pre-epidemic 1970s to the post-AIDS gay community of the 1990s. He tells the story of how a health crisis pushed a disjointed jumble of local activists to bcome a nationally visible and politically powerful civil rights movement, a full-fledged minority group challenging the authority of some of the nation's most powerful institutions. Based on hundreds of interviews with those at the forefront of the medical, political, and cultural responses to the disease, Victory Deferred blends personal narratives with institutional histories and organizational politics.

Those interviewed include Virginia Apuzzo, Reverend Carl Bean, Marcus Conant, John D'Emilio, Anthony Fauci, Fenton Johnson, Larry Kramer, Lawrence W. Mass, Armistead Maupin, Walt Odets, Torie Osborn, Eric Rofes, Urvashi Vaid, Timothy Westmoreland, and Reggie Williams.