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Witness how one family moved past anger and found the strength to face each day. Along the way they discovered love, friendship, and occasionally, even laughter. Although her son died, Ms Stasey survived the devastating emotional challenges of AIDS. Share her feelings about the medical system, her son's homosexuality, fears and courage.
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"Having a gender identity that conflicts with one's physical gender is a huge emotional burden. The anxiety, stress and depression that can result from having such a conflict can push a person to the point where everything in life that is held dear is risked to undertake one of the hardest challenges a human being can make: transitioning from one gender to the other. If you have an incongruent gender identity and are considering a gender transition...
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"HIV Nursing and Symptom Management covers diverse aspects of the clinical care of the individual with HIV infection, with a particular emphasis on the management of common clinical problems or symptoms. Written by a team of experts, this book combines evidence-based content with clinical expertise to provide the basis for the most current, effective care. Incorporating the latest HIV pharmacologic regimens and HIV treatment recommendations, including...
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With its opening idyllic images of children at play on the edge of a duck pond, One Boy at War introduces us to Paul Sergios - an all-American boy with an all-American life: an uneventful but happy childhood, a double date on prom night, graduation from USC in Los Angeles, a burgeoning career in film production. He was the quintessential Hollywood whiz kid - an attractive, bright, successful young executive on the rise, comfortably homosexual, basking...
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"The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor, and, perhaps most important, he is deeply in love with his partner of many years, Wally Roberts. The harmonious existence these two men share is shattered, however, when they learn that Wally has tested positive for HIV." "In Heaven's Coast - part memoir, part journal,...
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"LGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead LGBT people to experience worsened health outcomes. Bodies and Barriers informs health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that...
53) Walking on air
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In his new novel, Walking on Air, R. S. Jones has produced a gripping meditation on the bonds of love and trust in the face of shattering crisis. William Addams is dying. Controlling, mercurial, estranged from his family, he is consumed by the fear that he'll be abandoned as his disease careens out of his control. To avoid this, he focuses his considerable attention on Henry and Susan, his closest friends, the only people to whom his care can fall....
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"Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, Queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. Nobody who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic will soon forget the challenges, sacrifices, and incredible loss felt during such an uncertain time in history. Crisis and Care anthologizes not what happened...
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Abraham Verghese shares the story of his relationship with David Smith, discussing how their mentoring of one another in their fields of expertise--Verghese as a doctor and Smith as a tennis pro--led to a deepening friendship that was cut short when Smith was unable to fight his cocaine addiction and committed suicide