Friend Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends - Softcover

Noe, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988463229 ISBN 13: 9780988463226

Publisher: Ms., 2013

Synopsis

It s been likened to a plague, but AIDS was never just a health crisis. The second of a series on grieving the death of a friend, Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends, revisits a time when people with AIDS were also targets of bigotry and discrimination. In stories about Ryan White, ACT UP, the Names Project, red ribbons and more, you ll learn why friends made all the difference: not just caregiving or memorializing, but changing the way society confronts the medical establishment and government to demand action.

About this title

About the Author:

Victoria Noe has been a writer most of her life, but didn t admit it until 2009. After earning a Masters from the University of Iowa in Speech & Dramatic Art, she moved to Chicago, where she worked professionally as a stage manager, director and administrator, as well as a founding board member of the League of Chicago Theatres. Her next career was as a professional fundraiser, raising money for arts, educational and AIDS service organizations. After a concussion ended a successful sales career, she switched gears to keep a promise to a friend to write a book. Her freelance articles have appeared in Chicago Tribune and Windy City Times. She also reviews books on BroadwayWorld.com. Victoria lives in Chicago with her family.

Review:

Victoria Noe, former development director of Chicago House, is a straight ally who understands LGBT & AIDS issues from being in the trenches. She is now working on a series about grieving. The first is Friend and Grief and AIDS: Thirty Years of Burying Our Friends.
The second is Friend and Grief and Anger: When Your Friend Dies and No One Gives a Damn.

The AIDS book has chapters on ACT UP, the NAMES Quilt, guilt, glamour, World AIDS day and much more.

If you care about others, you have felt such grief and pain. These books can help us remember, and help us cope.

- Tracy Baim, Windy City Times

(Noe) reminds us that AIDS is still a big deal, and education, prevention, treatment, and related services still need support. That's the best tribute to our friends, she says: "When the story of the AIDS epidemic is written (in the past tense) the underlying theme will be friendship...You don't have to lay down your life for your friend - just give of yourself." - HIV PLus Magazine

I was a nurse in a city with a large population of gay men during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Friend Grief and AIDS very clearly identifies the frustration and fear all of us felt during this time. Noe provides a perspective on this time that needs to be shared with those who want to be infected, intentionally seeking partners who are infected. These young people need to read about a time when the infection they want to get was an absolute death sentence. This should be required reading for those who would dishonor the memory of those who have died from AIDS. - Reader Favorites *****

About this edition

• Publisher: Ms.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0988463229
• ISBN 13: 9780988463226
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 68