
God's Strongest Gururin lobbyist
I haven’t read this but it’s on my list. I remember Kramer comes up a lot in And the Band Played On, since he was really active in organizing things like ACT UP.
It definitely feels like a complicated legacy. In a way, he was “vindicated” only due to a virus that specifically targeted the members of his community he felt alienated from. Maybe it’s more that he was around at the right place and right time, and a lot of his baggage got swept up in the mainstream along with the good ideas?
Yea i shoulda put some quotes or something to emphasize what his vindication meant. He doesnt seem to be an uncle tom (is there an LGBT+ specific term for this?) Like Caitlyn Jenner or Blair White but alot of his baggage fed into mainstream in a negative way his contemporaries rightly criticized him for.
EDIT: also i meant to read AtBPO For a while, but it's such a big and thrwatening book, but i was interested cuz it seemed like a good way to get more context on how the govt handled covid.
Oh no worries, I got what you meant! And yeah, AtBPO would probably be interesting to read, though not without it's own criticism. One book I've been meaning to read as well is Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic, which kind of critiques how that book handled Gaétan Dugas.