JOHN-MANUEL ANDRIOTE
Nearly 20,000 San Franciscans have died from AIDS since the epidemic was first reported there in 1981. I visited the city in April 2010 to do interviews for the new edition of my book Victory Deferred. I was awed by the city’s resilience and joyful spirit, even as I was stunned to think about the terrible loss and grief it had suffered.
I wrote about it in an article for Guide Magazine, and put together a video tribute to San Francisco’s gentle people taken by AIDS.
Thanks for visiting me on the Web.
If we don’t yet know each other, an extra thank you . . . and welcome!
WHAT I DO
You’ll find here samples of my writing, photos and videos. There are links to some of my articles, descriptions and reviews of my books, and some of the talks and interviews I’ve given.
WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
Do you need a skilled communicator―a writer or speaker to help show, in words and images, why your work matters? Who has trained community HIV workers in Africa and the Caribbean to report and document their work for funders and the media?
Please visit my consulting page to see my resume, core competencies, and the types of projects I’ve completed for national and global NGOs and government agencies.
WHAT I THINK
I’ve channeled my urge to opine, to show in words what I’m made of and how things look from my little corner of it in Norwich, Connecticut.
My blog, notes from norwich, is an “occasional” reflection on a day, an event, or anything else that crosses my way and makes me think.
Installments of my weekly column for the The Bulletin, in which I get to share what I think in our weekly newspaper, are linked from the main articles page.
I’ve also published op-ed commentaries in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and other local and national magazines and newspapers.
Thanks again for your visit. Please come back again . . . soon!
With a grant from the New York-based Arcus Foundation, I traveled around the U.S. in 2010 to interview nearly six dozen activists, doctors, researchers and people living with HIV for a new edition of my 1999 book Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America. The firsthand accounts from those on the frontlines of AIDS in this country bring the story up to date from where I left off in the original 1999 edition.
Additional funding from the Gill Foundation and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS now makes possible this updated and expanded new edition, in paperback and e-book. Available from iBookstore, Amazon and everywhere quality books are sold.
Kirkus Reviews hailed Victory Deferred as “The most important AIDS chronicle since Randy Shilts’ And the Band Played On.” The book won awards and honors. The hundreds of recorded interviews used to develop it are now part of the Victory Deferred collection at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.
THE BULLETIN
weekly column
(Mondays, Norwich, Connecticut)
Skaters treated like mutts, or worse
(August 15, 2011)
COMING OCTOBER 1
VICTORY DEFERRED UPDATED AND EXPANDED
a video tribute to gentle people TAKEN BY AIDS
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