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Authors: Martin Duberman

    
Callen and Berkowitz’s
New York Native
article,
47–51
,
55–59

    
Callen as patient,
9–13
,
46–47
,
53
,
127
,
134–35
,
230
,
258

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

    
and Delaney’s study of Compound Q,
228

    
eccentricities,
10–11
,
62
,
73–74
,
127

    
on heterosexuals and AIDS transmission,
65–66
,
95–96
,
314n11
,
318n1

    
HIV theories,
97–101
,
126–27
,
317n14

    
interferon research,
9
,
309n3
,
317n15

    
and Mass,
64–65

    
medical practice,
9–13
,
48
,
62
,
73–74
,
127

    
medical training and career,
9–11
,
53

    
moral disapproval of sexual promiscuity,
51
,
311n8

    
multifactorial theory of STDs and immune system deficiency,
12–13
,
46
,
51
,
62
,
97–101
,
126–27
,
311n10

    
on PCP prophylactics,
53
,
145
,
148

    
and Rosen of GMHC,
62

Spectrum (D. C. organization),
139

Squires, Rachel,
165

St. Clare’s Hospital (New York),
124

St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital Center (New York),
9
,
151

St. Mark’s (NYC bathhouse),
11

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, ACT-UP demonstration at (1989),
187–88

St. Vincent’s Hospital (New York),
224
,
249

Staley, Peter,
195

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

Stanford, Adrian,
321n14

Staples, Robert,
180

Station to Station (performance poetry group),
32–33
,
40–41
,
215

Stayin’ Alive
(Berkowitz),
48

Steinem, Gloria,
67

Stoddard, Tom,
123–24
,
223
,
224–25

Stokes, W. Royal,
78

Stolin, Sam,
309n6

Stonewall Place in Sheridan Square (NYC),
184

Stonewall riots (1969),
6
,
10
,
81

Stormé
(film),
42

Streisand, Barbra,
4
,
221
,
320n10

Strub, Sean,
127

Stud (San Francisco hangout),
157

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
16

Suede (lesbian singer),
327n8

Suggs, Donald,
177

Sullivan, Andrew,
188
,
256

Sullivan, Louis,
190

Sun Ra,
78

suramin,
53
,
133
,
273

Surgeon General’s Report on AIDS
(Koop report),
113
,
153–54

Surviving AIDS
(Callen) (1990),
130
,
249

Surviving and Thriving with AIDS: Collected Wisdom
(People with AIDS Coalition, 1988),
160–61
,
164
,
320n12

    
“People of Color and AIDS,”
160

    
“Women with AIDS,”
160

survivors of HIV/AIDS, long-term

    
Callen’s conversations with,
126
,
132–33
,
136–37
,
164
,
230
,
277
,
317n14

    
characteristics,
132–33
,
137

    
mortality rates/median survival rates,
136–37
,
229

Sweeney, Tim,
152–53
,
196

Sweet Honey in the Rock (a capella ensemble),
165

syphilis,
6
,
10
,
173
,
220

Tallmer, Abby,
11
,
54
,
73–74
,
112
,
199

Tarver, Chuck,
216

Tate, Garth,
30
,
40–41

Taylor, Cecil,
78

Taylor, Elizabeth,
161

Temple University,
30
,
167
,
318n26

Testing the Limits Collective,
277

Thatcher, Margaret,
61

THC (marijuana) pills,
282

T-helper cells

    
and AZT,
129

    
and Hemphill’s poem “Vital Signs,”
267–68

    
and HIV theories,
128
,
230

    
and naltrexone,
164

    
T-4 cells,
99
,
226–27

    
T8 suppressor cells,
46
,
48
,
226–27

    
testing technology,
13

“Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (Rubin),
218

“third gender” theory (Hay),
253

Third World AIDS Advisory Task Force (San Francisco),
191

This Bridge Called by Back
(Moraga and Anzaldúa, eds.),
105

Thomas, Clarence,
15

Thurman, Wallace,
172

Time
magazine,
199–200

Tinney, James S.,
87
,
89

Tongues Untied
(film),
34
,
175
,
180
,
204–9

    
Kennedy Center screening,
205–6
,
209

    
PBS broadcasts,
206–7

Townsend, Cliff,
165
,
202
,
280
,
327n8

Tracy, Liz,
189

Trax Recording (L.A.),
275
,
276

Tucker, Sterling,
16

Turner, Dan,
67

Turner, Maurice T.,
140

Tuskegee experiment (1932–72),
120
,
138
,
173

Union Temple (Washington, D.C.),
86

Unity (Philadelphia),
139
,
215

University of Maryland,
26–28

University of Nebraska,
13

University of Oregon,
291

University of Pennsylvania Hospital,
300

University of the District of Columbia,
26–27

University of Toledo,
300

Us Helping Us,
85
,
292–93
,
300

U.S. Supreme Court

    
Bowers
decision (1986),
122–24
,
154

    
Webster
decision (1989),
187

Valentino, Carl,
247–49
,
278

Van Vechten, Carl,
30

Vilcek, Jan,
9

Village Voice
,
57
,
136
,
158
,
177
,
311n9

Vitamin C treatments,
64

Voicescapes
,
40
,
106
,
140–41

The Wages of Sin
(Allen),
49–50

Walker, A’Lelia,
30

Wall Street Journal
,
122

Wallace, Michelle,
294

Washington, D.C. race riots (1968),
15

Washington, D.C.’s black gay and lesbian community,
15–18
,
28–42
,
77–85
,
139–41

    
artistic/creative community,
17
,
28–42
,
77–85
,
112
,
140–42
,
215

    
D.C. Coalition,
16
,
28
,
29
,
36
,
41–42
,
214–15

    
lesbians and feminist community,
28–29
,
155
,
174–75

    
See also
Hemphill, Essex

Washington, D.C.’s city-level response to AIDS crisis,
83–89
,
139–40
,
175

Washington, Walter,
15

Washington AIDS Partnership,
293

Washington Blade
,
27
,
36
,
41
,
142

Washington Post
,
34
,
35
,
37
,
78
,
88
,
117
,
141
,
232–33

Washington Post Book World
,
232–33

Washington Project for the Arts (WPA),
37

Washington Times
,
88

Washington Urban League,
16

Waxman, Henry,
60
,
150

“We Know Who We Are” (Callen and Berkowitz),
47–51
,
55–59
,
94–95

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
(1989),
187

Wellman, Joyce,
37

Welsing, Frances Cress,
180–81

West, Cornel,
294

Western blot test,
121

Western Regional Conference on AIDS and Ethnic Minorities (1986),
191

WHAM! (Women’s Health Action Mobilization),
187

White, Edmund,
6
,
70

White, Ryan,
149

Whitman-Walker Health clinic (Washington, D.C.),
83–84
,
85
,
86
,
139–40
,
141
,
162–64
,
216

Whitmore, George,
223

Wildmon, Donald E.,
206–7

Will, George,
75–76

Williams, Cynthia Lou,
30

Williams, Tennessee,
6

Williamson, Cris,
276
,
281

Wilson, Cassandra,
78

Wilson, Phill,
233–34
,
302

Wilson, Willie,
86

Wingate, J. Terry,
86

Wittke, Christopher,
160

Wolfe, Maxine,
189–90

Wollstonecraft, Mary,
102

women and AIDS

    
African American women,
x

    
and the CDC,
85
,
189

    
and CRI’s clinical drug trials,
152

    
HIV/AIDS infections/ transmission,
66
,
98
,
137

    
IV drug users,
137

Women in the Life
(publication),
32

Woods, Donald,
36
,
173
,
209
,
302

Word Is Out
(film),
52

World Health Organization (WHO),
256

WPFW (D.C. radio station),
33
,
117–18

You Can Heal Your Life
(Hay),
132

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