![]() ![]() ![]() I’m mad I waited so many decades to read this book. It’s scope is vast, even as most chapters include poignant personal details. ![]() And every description is full of so much heart and pain. He compares the attitudes of the New York gay community with that in San Francisco. Shilts examines what it felt like to be a gay man as the diagnosis of AIDS shifted from “gay cancer” to ARC to AIDS and HIV. And the Band is a compilation of various angles on the story, from personal to scientific to political. This background gave him a unique seat at the side of history, as it was being made. Despite being published in 1987, it remains one of the most definitive books on the history of AIDS and the gay community.Īfter college, Shilts moved to San Francisco, working as a journalist for The Advocate and The San Francisco Chronicle. It’s 600 pages of intense details, drawn from thousands of interviews with 900+ people. Randy Shilts creates a tour de force history of the early years of the AIDS epidemic in And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic. ![]()
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