Hold Tight Gently (64 page)

Hemphill, Essex (poetry/writings),
18–25
,
77–78
,
264–69
,
296–302
,
309n6

    
“Act I,”
20

    
“American Wedding,”
239

    
“Balloons,”
32–33

    
and Be Bop Books,
33–34
,
115
,
245

    
book contract,
243–45
,
325nn12–13

    
“Brass Rail,”
34–35

    
and
Brother to Brother
anthology,
167–72
,
321n14

    
Ceremonies
,
180
,
237–41
,
321n14
,
325n10

    
“Civil Servant,”
173–74
,
265

    
Conditions
,
34
,
116–17
,
118
,
237

    
“Cordon Negro,”
82–83

    
“Critical Care,”
245

    
Diamonds Was in the Kitty
,
34
,
77

    
“Does Your Mama Know About Me?,”
239

    
Domestic Life
,
298–99
,
303

    
Earth Life
,
34
,
111
,
115
,
118
,
237

    
“The Faerie Poem,”
266–67

    
“Family Jewels,”
82
,
117

    
“Fixin’ Things,”
18–19

    
“Heavy Breathing,”
237–39
,
264–65

    
“Homocide (for Ronald Gibson),”
37–38
,
204

    
“Loyalty,”
239–40
,
292

    
and the MOVE bombing,
106

    
“My Funny Valentine,”
31–32

    
“O Tell Me, Brutus,”
114

    
“The Occupied Territories,”
123

    
Plums
,
34
,
77

    
poems for Joe Beam,
143
,
166

    
“Revenge,”
23–24

    
and Riggs’s
Tongues Untied
,
34
,
175
,
204

    
self-published chapbooks,
33–34
,
116–17

    
Soft Targets
,
141

    
Some of the People We Love Are Terrorists
,
34

    
“Standing in the Gap” (novel-in-progress),
xii
,
208
,
241–44
,
268
,
296
,
325n12

    
“Talking with a Friend . . . ,”
20

    
“Thanksgiving 1993,”
268–69

    
“To Some Supposed Brothers,”
155
,
174

    
“The Tomb of Sorrow,”
108–9
,
265

    
unpublished early poems,
20–25
,
309n6

    
unpublished novel,
208
,
313n6
,
328n6

    
“Vital Signs,”
18
,
246
,
264–68
,
298
,
299–300
,
303

    
“When My Brother Fell,”
166

    
“A Woman Our Mother We Love You,”
22

Hemphill, Mantalene,
xii
,
18
,
22
,
241–43
,
268
,
302–3
,
309n6

Hemphill, Warren,
18
,
40

Hermance, Ed,
110

Hersch, Fred,
158

heterosexuals

    
Africans and AIDS transmission,
x
,
xi
,
65
,
98
,
262
,
314n11
,
326n9

    
AIDS transmission among,
xi
,
65–66
,
95–96
,
98
,
262
,
314n11
,
318n1
,
326n9

    
Masters and Johnson’s 1979
Homosexuality in Perspective
,
231

    
spreading panic of imminent AIDS epidemic among,
57
,
65–66
,
95–96
,
314n11
,
318n1

    
syphilis rates,
220

    
See also
black community and homosexuality

Hibsher, Bill,
312n16

Hicks, Chuck,
215

High Performance
(magazine),
40
,
140

Hilliard, William A.,
17

Hine Junior High School (Washington, D.C.),
303

Hinkle, Doug,
27

Hispanic AIDS Forum,
120
,
183

Hispanics/Latinos

    
drug trials,
137
,
148

    
and GMHC,
90
,
93
,
119–20

    
HIV/AIDS infection rates,
ix
,
137

    
PWAC support groups,
198

    
Spanish-language AIDS prevention materials,
93
,
119–20
,
148

HIV tests,
127–28
,
225

    
calls for forced testing,
121
,
122

    
ELISA test,
121

    
and seronegativity,
100–101
,
127–28

    
Western blot test,
121

HIV virus,
97–101
,
120
,
126–29
,
317n14

    
AIDS in seronegative individuals,
100–101
,
127–28

    
and antiretroviral therapy,
ix
,
101
,
128–29

    
Callen on,
97–101
,
126–29
,
230

    
denialists,
99–100
,
127–28

    
discovery of,
97–101

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

HIV/AIDS infection rates,
ix–x

    
Africa,
x
,
xi
,
65
,
98
,
262
,
314n11
,
326n11

    
blacks,
ix–x
,
86
,
113
,
137
,
139
,
175
,
262

    
heterosexuals,
xi
,
65–66
,
95–96
,
98
,
262
,
314n11
,
318n1
,
326n9

    
IV drug users,
65–66
,
113
,
137
,
191

    
Latinos/Hispanics,
ix
,
137

    
US/worldwide (1992),
256

    
women,
x
,
66
,
98
,
137

HLA-DR3/HLA-DR5 (tissue types),
46

Holiday, Billie,
34
,
204

Holleran, Andrew,
6

Holmes, Lois,
268–69
,
329n15

Home Girls
(ed. Smith),
77
,
105

homophobia,
193
,
253
,
263

    
American Psychoanalytic Association forum on,
193

    
and black church,
17–18
,
86–87
,
139
,
172
,
213
,
241–42

    
and the black community,
87–89
,
170
,
171
,
176
,
180–81

    
Brother to Brother
and
Washington Post Book World
controversy,
232–33

    
and infringements on gay civil rights in wake of AIDS crisis,
122

    
and racism,
71
,
101
,
170
,
171

    
as underlying cause of AIDS,
56

homosexuality’s equation with disease (pathology),
14
,
49–50
,
55
,
58
,
92

hooks, bell,
294
,
295

Hooks, Benjamin,
89

Hoover, Herbert,
14

Houston-Hamilton, Amanda,
112

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

Howard University,
27
,
28
,
30
,
85–86
,
139
,
292

HPA-23,
53

HTLV-III (retrovirus),
255

Hudson, Rock,
121
,
149

Hudson Street Bookstore (Greenwich Village),
11

Hughes, Chi,
35

Hughes, Langston,
34
,
118
,
172
,
179–80
,
209
,
239

Hughes, Walter,
145

Human Rights Campaign,
193

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari,
210–11

Hutera, Donald,
34

Ice Palace (NYC disco),
82

Identity House,
202

imipramine,
273

imuthiol,
53

In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology
(ed. Beam),
76–77
,
105
,
109
,
110–11
,
114–15
,
142
,
167
. See also
Brother to Brother: New Writings by Black Men

Institute for Policy Studies (Washington, D.C.),
172

interferon,
53
,
133
,
190

    
and AZT therapy,
317n15

    
Sonnabend’s research,
9
,
309n3
,
317n15

International Conference on AIDS in Montreal (1989),
217

International Conference on AIDS in Washington, D.C. (1987),
145–46

Isaacs, Alick,
9

The Isis Papers
(Welsing),
180

IV drug users

    
female,
137

    
HIV infections,
65–66
,
113
,
137
,
191

    
mortality rates,
137
,
229

    
needle exchange programs,
61
,
138
,
184
,
191
,
213

    
and racism,
138

Jacks of Color,
253

Jackson, Isaac,
42
,
107
,
208

Jackson, Jennifer,
2
,
4

Jackson, Jesse,
87
,
175

James, John,
130

“Jewel Box Review” (drag show),
42

John, Elton,
4
,
262

Johnson, Cary Alan,
207–8

Johnson, Earvin (“Magic”),
234–36
,
262

Johnson, Lyndon,
14
,
83