Hold Tight Gently (61 page)

    
and CRI,
146–47
,
149–52
,
162
,
164
,
194–98
,
229

    
“Dinosaur’s Diary” (
QW
column),
254–55
,
259

    
disdain for New Age nostrums,
131–32
,
164
,
272

    
and “drugs into bodies” slogan,
129
,
131
,
222
,
229
,
273

    
European holiday with Dworkin (1984),
101–3

    
feminism,
7–8
,
12
,
51
,
67
,
70
,
102
,
152
,
194
,
218
,
253
,
260

    
final days and death,
282–90
,
328n17

    
HIV theories,
97–101
,
126–29
,
230

    
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic
(1983 pamphlet),
68–71
,
90

    
and Krim,
198–200

    
on living with AIDS,
125
,
136

    
Los Angeles move,
250–53
,
258
,
282

    
on Magic Johnson,
235

    
New York Native
article with Berkowitz,
47–51
,
55–59
,
94

    
Newsline
editorship,
93
,
121
,
126
,
134–35
,
194
,
200–201

    
the O Boys and group-based sex,
251–53

    
on promiscuity issue,
59
,
62–65
,
95
,
126–27
,
219

    
and PWA movement,
12
,
67–68
,
91–93
,
120–21
,
125–26
,
131
,
151
,
198–201

    
relationship with Dworkin,
51–52
,
54–55
,
101–3
,
125
,
136
,
159
,
201
,
247–51
,
259–60
,
275–76
,
282
,
287–90

    
safe-sex issue,
63–71
,
93–96
,
162–64
,
201
,
218–21
,
231
,
260–61

    
and Sonnabend’s multifactorial theory,
97–101
,
126–27

    
speech to NY congressional delegation,
70–72

    
tour of NY bathhouse scene,
93–97

Callen, Mike (early life)

    
at Boston University,
1
,
4–8

    
coming out,
7

    
early homosexual experiences,
5–6
,
11–12

    
foray into gay politics,
6–7

    
Hamilton, Ohio,
1–4

    
high school harassment,
4

    
parents and homosexuality,
2–3
,
7
,
43–45
,
287–88
,
320n10

    
post-graduation NYC,
8–15

Callen, Mike (health)

    
alternative/experimental therapies,
132–34
,
164
,
272–75
,
327n3

    
Bactrim treatments,
53
,
145

    
chemotherapy,
258–59
,
271
,
275
,
277

    
declining health,
200
,
218
,
227
,
249–50
,
254–59
,
271–75
,
279–90

    
early persistent, mysterious illnesses and STDs,
1
,
8–9
,
12–13
,
52–54
,
134

    
final days,
282–90
,
328n17

    
hospitalizations,
52–54
,
124–25
,
134
,
254–55
,
274–75
,
287–88

    
KS diagnosis and lesions,
134–35
,
164
,
200
,
218
,
249–50
,
257
,
271–75
,
286

    
pulmonary KS,
254–55
,
257–59
,
271–75
,
277
,
327n3

    
as Sonnabend’s patient,
9–13
,
46–47
,
53
,
127
,
134–35
,
230
,
258

Callen, Mike (music),
51–52
,
156–60
,
164–66
,
201–3
,
253–54
,
259
,
275–79
,
319–20n10

    
“Better in the Moonlight,”
275

    
cabaret singing,
4
,
8
,
44

    
the Flirtations (a capella),
164–66
,
201–3
,
221–22
,
250
,
253–54
,
278–81
,
285

    
Legacy
album,
160
,
275–82
,
286
,
290

    
“Living in Wartime,”
158

    
“Love Don’t Need a Reason,”
158–59
,
160
,
278
,
320n10
,
327n8

    
Lowlife (band),
51–52
,
156–57
,
158
,
160

    
Purple Heart
album,
158–60
,
276
,
285
,
319–20n10

    
“Redesign the Family,”
281

    
singing voice,
159
,
160
,
201
,
276–77

    
“Sometimes Not Often Enough,”
281

    
songwriting,
124
,
125
,
158–60
,
253
,
275
,
320n10

    
“Two Men Dance the Tango,”
279
,
281

    
“We’ve Had Enough,”
277

Campbell, Bobbi (“Sister Florence Nightmare”),
66–67
,
90
,
91–93

Carlomusto, Jean,
189

Carter, Colevia,
215

Casselberry and Du Pree,
36
,
157

Catholic Church,
61
,
138
,
183–84
,
187–88

Cavalieri, Grace,
33
,
117–18

CBS News,
72

CD4 cells,
13
,
45
,
49
,
127
,
229–30

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS),
196
,
262

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
ix–x

    
and Bactrim as prophylaxis against PCP,
53

    
definition of AIDS,
55
,
189

    
early report on disease among gay men (1981),
13–14

    
July 1982 announcement,
55

    
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
reports,
13
,
45

    
spending on AIDS research,
154

    
treating AIDS as disease of gay white men,
84–85

    
virus theory,
56

    
women and AIDS,
85
,
189

Chang, Yong,
214

Chavis, Ben,
210
,
295

Cheeks, Rainey,
85

Chernov, Harvey,
148–49

Chez Panisse (restaurant),
281

Chicago Resource Center,
114–15

Christopher Street
(magazine),
75

Christopher Street bookstore (NYC),
220

Cinqué,
34–35
,
140

Cinqué, Joseph,
34–35

circumcision,
314n11
,
326n9

City of Los Angeles Lifetime Achievement Award,
285

Claire (NYC restaurant),
60

Clarke, Cheryl,
78
,
87
,
175
,
204

Clayborne, Jon L.,
76

Cleary, Janet,
52

Cleaver, Eldridge,
171
,
180

Cliff, Michelle,
76

Clinton, Bill/Clinton administration,
256
,
262–63
,
326n7

Club Baths (NYC),
93
,
96–97

Clubhouse (D.C. dance club),
85

Coffeehouse (Washington, D.C.),
35–37
,
78

Cohen, Cathy J.,
84
,
153
,
154

Cohn, Roy,
149

Color Adjustment
(film),
236

Coltrane, John,
27

Committee for Open Gay Bars,
81

Committee of Black Gay Men,
79

Community Constituency Consortium (CCC),
146
,
147
,
150

Community Research Initiative (CRI),
139
,
146–52
,
162
,
194–98
,
248

    
and ACT UP,
194–96

    
aerosol pentamidine trials,
151–52

    
and amfAR,
146
,
198–200

    
Callen and,
146–47
,
149–52
,
162
,
164
,
194–98
,
229

    
and Compound Q,
197–98

    
demographics (women and people of color),
147–48
,
195–97

    
financial problems,
197
,
199

    
Grant’s accusations against Callen and,
194–97

    
the Institutional Review Board (IRB),
147–48
,
151–52
,
318n1

    
Sonnabend and,
146
,
151
,
194–95
,
197–98
,
318n1

    
See also
drug trials and drug therapies

Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA),
198
,
318n1

“Community-Based AIDS Research” (Merton),
148

Compound Q (trichosanthin),
133
,
197–98
,
228
,
255

Conant, Marcus,
45
,
66–67

“Concorde” study (1993),
130
,
131
,
256

condoms

    
availability of,
86–87

    
Catholic church and,
184
,
187

    
education on proper use,
65
,
86
,
163

    
Koop report,
153

    
and safe-sex practices/prevention of AIDS,
x
,
69–70
,
163–64
,
219–21
,
231
,
260–61

Congressional Black Caucus,
87

Cornwell, Anita,
77

The Cosby Show
(television),
236

CRI.
See
Community Research Initiative (CRI)