Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbriath Award for Nonfiction,
the Gotham Book Prize, the ALA Stonewall Israel Fishman Nonfiction
Award, and the Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award. A 2021 New
York Times Book Review Notable Book and a New York Times Book
Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2021 Brooklyn Public
Library Literary Prize. One of NPR, New York, and The Guardian's
Best Books of 2021, one of Buzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021,
one of Electric Literature's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021, one
of NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and one of Gay Times'
Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. This is not reverent, definitive history.
This is a tactician's bible. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is
the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP
and American AIDS activism In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a
broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders,
sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor,
desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS
crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on
the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who
stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA
and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in
New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to
change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they
transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and
advertising to push their agenda, and battled--and beat--The New
York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry.
Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power,
transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society
that had abandoned them. Based on more than two hundred interviews
with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists,
Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue
reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts,
achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most
revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the
how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite,
how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in
the process created a livable future for generations of people
across the world.
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