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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 52 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Haitian
Description
A frank look at a largely unexplored area, Of Men And Gods examines the daily existence of several Haitian men who are openly gay.Prevalent, yet still taboo, homosexuality and gay culture are allowed to flourish within the context of Haiti's Vodou religion.
22) AIDS
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
223 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
23) The normal heart
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
123 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1987. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends, but it feels like she'll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying of a virus that is off-limits to talk about? When she knows that soon all she will have left of her kind, loving dad are memories, photos, and a binder full of the poems they used to exchange? Iris resolves to speak out against the rampant fear, misinformation, and prejudice...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 importantly, 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 the HIV virus. From diagnosis to the initial signs...
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (144 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In Paris in the early 1990s, members of the activist group ACT UP battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and major pharmaceutical companies in bold, invasive actions. Amid rallies, protests, fierce debates and ecstatic dance parties, newcomer to the group Nathan falls in love with Sean, the ACT UP's radical firebrand, and their passion sparks against the shadow of mortality as the activists fight for a breakthrough....
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories...
30) Jabari jumps
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Language
English
Description
Even though he's successfully finished his swiming lessons, Jabari discovers that he's frightened at the thought of jumping off a diving board.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 39 min., 19 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
HIV is a virus, which attacks the immune system. Most HIV positive people eventually develop AIDS, a collection of diseases and opportunistic infections. Currently there is no cure, but combination drug therapies help combat HIV and have shown to delay progression to AIDS.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Tony Kushner's Angels in America is that rare entity: a work for the stage that is profoundly moving yet very funny, highly theatrical yet steeped in traditional literary values, and most of all deeply American in its attitudes and political concerns. In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handful of people trying to make sense of the world. Prior is a man living with AIDS whose lover Louis has...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.)
Language
English
Description
HIV/AIDS has ravaged entire populations in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet educational efforts to prevent the acceleration of the epidemic continue to clash with traditional cultural attitudes that view protected sex as unmanly. Protection provides a fascinating look at the origins of these attitudes, and examines how they are being kept alive by a set of hyper masculine myths that extol risk taking as an emblem of strength, virility, and potency. An eye-opening...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 26 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Through the comments of a professional who works with people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, as well as a woman who is HIV-positive, this video focuses on the place of spirituality in HIV/AIDS. How a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS impacts the whole person is described, including the spiritual dimension of the person. How HIV/AIDS impacts the spiritual need for meaning and purpose, the spiritual need for forgiveness, and the spiritual need for love and relatedness...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ."
What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's life as she read Vincent's diaries and began to learn about the high school student she had taught twenty-five years before. A Boy I...
Author
Publisher
Graphics Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Second edition
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
This book deals with the theory and practice in the design of data graphics and makes the point that the most effective way to describe, explore, and summarize a set of numbers is to look at pictures of those numbers, through the use of statistical graphics, charts, and tables. It includes 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 71 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swati
Description
Amidst the highest prevalence of HIV in the world and the lowest life expectancy, three grandmothers in Swaziland, a small, landlocked country in southern Africa between South Africa and Mozambique, cope in this critical moment in time. The generation between the grandmothers and their grandchildren has been severely effected by HIV.
38) The rope walk
Author
Series
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alice MacCauley's eleventh summer is shaped by new friendship, the twinges of first love, and adult lessons about life and death when she and Theo, a New York City boy of mixed race visiting his white New England grandparents, become the companions of Kenneth, an artist dying of and losing his eyesight to AIDS, reading him the journals of Lewis and Clark and building him a secret "rope walk" through the woods.
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes how miniature horses can be trained to guide the blind, and describes how Panda, a guide horse for Ann Edie, helps Ann across busy streets, into cars and trains, and other places.
40) The married man
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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