A review by tjalexandernyc
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism by Peter Staley

I grew up in the '90s in what I always thought of as the tail-end of the AIDS crisis, but since I was a child then, and since I was receiving at best a spurious education in the sciences of HIV and at worst homophobic fear-mongering, this book was a revelation. It's a heartbreaking and fascinating look at the world of activism and slow, incremental change. It's also a depressing mirror of the COVID pandemic, right down to the misinformation, popular interest in the fight against it disappearing, and a surge in infections.