It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

14 hours, 9 minutes first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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 The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous dr...

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informative 94%
emotional 69%
reflective 60%
sad 57%
inspiring 46%
challenging 42%
hopeful 28%
dark 23%
funny 5%
tense 5%
adventurous 3%

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slow 26%
fast 13%

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