Word: angers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...join group after group and march in every demonstration he could find. This month the poet and floral decorator took on a new career, completing a certificate course at Boston University to become an AIDS educator. He plans to focus on racial minorities. "I had a lot of anger that I had to turn into something productive," he says. "We live in a society so numbed by statistics that we have begun to normalize something that should never be considered normal. It's the Vietnam body count all over. And gay white men are already better organized than other communities...
...anger, his politicization and his activism, McDade embodies the experience of many of the country's 10 million adult gay men. They feel they have been living through a war, watching comrades fall by the battalion. During the dozen years of the AIDS epidemic, they have witnessed the premature death of virtually a generation of leaders, role models, neighbors and friends. While some gay men have been touched by unexpected compassion from heterosexual acquaintances, a majority have been embittered by what they see as widespread hostility or neglect. They overwhelmingly believe that government at all levels has scorned and abandoned...
...first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade...
...this still matters, despite Perot's exit. As they are all saying now, including George Bush and Bill Clinton, your anger over our national mess is a source of political energy that should be harnessed, a message that must be heard...
...Margaret, Maryellen Rowlett is empathetic and at times delightfully caustic when analyzing the other. When she portrays her characters's anger, however, Rowlett's performance falls flat; "emphatic" gestures and a raised voice are insufficient to carry these scenes...