Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The AIDS capital of the world
  • A disease, not a lifestyle: race, sexuality, and AIDS in the City of Brotherly Love
  • Nurturing growth in those empty spaces: Blackness and multiculturalism in AIDS education
  • Black men loving Black men is a revolutionary act: gay men of African descent, the Black gay renaissance, and the politics of self-esteem
  • We've been doing this for a few thousand years: the Nation of Islam's African AIDS cure
  • There is a balm in Gilead: AIDS activism in the Black church
  • Stop medical apartheid from South Africa to Philadelphia: ACT UP Philadelphia and the movement for global treatment access
  • The South within the North: SisterLove's intersectional approach to HIV/AIDS
  • Conclusion: generations of activism.