It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery, Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery, Jack Lowery

14 hours, 9 minutes first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced

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 The story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous dr...

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Moods

informative 100%
reflective 61%
emotional 52%
inspiring 52%
sad 47%
challenging 42%
hopeful 38%
dark 14%
adventurous 9%
funny 4%
tense 4%

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medium 47%
slow 26%
fast 26%

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