Someone Was Here: Profiles in the AIDS Epidemic

✍ Scribed by George Whitmore

• Book ID: 100270499
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-us
• Weight: 133 KB
• Edition: Online-ausg
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1480455075

✦ Synopsis

Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic

Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others like me into walking time bombs; there was a need to strike back, not just wait to die. What I didn't fully appreciate then, however, was the extent to which I was trying to bargain with AIDS: If I wrote about it, maybe I wouldn't get it. My article ran in May 1985. But AIDS didn't keep its part of the bargain. --George Whitmore, The New York Times Magazine

Published at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Someone Was Here brings together three stories, reported between 1985 and 1987, about the human cost of the disease.Whitmore writes of Jim Sharp, a man in New York infected with AIDS, and Edward Dunn, one of the many people in Jim's support network, who volunteers with the Gay Men's...