WRITERS EMPOWERING Readers: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLAN GURGANUS

In this interview, Gurganus describes in harrowing detail his return to North Carolina from New York where he had experienced firsthand how the AIDS epidemic ravaged the gay community there, even witnessing the death of over thirty of his friends and lovers, many of whom he nursed. Since we weren�...

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Published in:North Carolina literary review 2018-01 (27), p.18-33
Main Author: Vernon, Zackary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
AIDS
Empowerment
Gurganus, Allan
Helms, Jesse A
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Mysteries
Political activism
Writers
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Summary:In this interview, Gurganus describes in harrowing detail his return to North Carolina from New York where he had experienced firsthand how the AIDS epidemic ravaged the gay community there, even witnessing the death of over thirty of his friends and lovers, many of whom he nursed. Since we weren't really registered with Harvey Gantt, Helms's opponent, his organization was reticent to help us produce publications. If Helms had the power to veto medical research into what AIDS was and how to stop it, such scripture-quoting malevolence is now at large in environmental circles and artistic circles and diplomatic circles and public education. House Bill 2 was dragging North Carolina back into the news in the worst possible way, and the right-wing legislators were using the smokescreen of transgenders in public bathrooms as a way of depriving local constituencies of their right to selfdetermination, their right to extend job benefits to gay employees.
ISSN:1063-0724
2165-1809