Hold Tight Gently

Name: Hold Tight Gently
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SKU: 9781595589453
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Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Struggle for Survival

By Martin Duberman

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Hold Tight Gently is a meticulously researched and evocatively told memoir by historian Martin Duberman. The book serves as a poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS, focusing on two unsung heroes of the epidemic’s early years: composer Michael Callen and poet Essex Hemphill. Callen emerged as a prominent activist striving to raise AIDS awareness amid widespread neglect, while Hemphill gave voice to the black gay and lesbian community in Washington, D.C., through powerful, introspective poetry. The narrative deeply explores themes of race, sexuality, class, identity, and politics.
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Meticulously researched and evocatively told, Hold Tight Gently is historian Martin Duberman's poignant memorial to those lost to AIDS and to two of the great unsung heroes of the early years of the epidemic.

Composer Michael Callen became a leading figure in the movement to increase awareness of AIDS in the face of wilful neglect. Essex Hemphill contributed to the black gay and lesbian flowering in Washington, D.C., with poetry of searing intensity and introspection.

A profound exploration of the intersection of race, sexuality, class, identity and politics.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781595589453

Publisher: The New Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 April 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: The New Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 240.0mm

Weight: 689g

Pages: 358

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Addiction & Recovery Biography & Memoir Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Martin Duberman Non-Fiction

About the Author

Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he founded and for a decade directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. The author of more than twenty books-including Andrea Dworkin, Radical Acts, Waiting to Land, A Saving Remnant, Howard Zinn, The Martin Duberman Reader, and Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me (for young adults)-Duberman has won a Bancroft Prize and been a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New York City.

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