A review by storysteph
Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, and Dealers Plotted Against the Plague by Joyce Brabner

5.0

I was three years old when Ray's story begins, so I don't have much in the way of memories of the early days of AIDS. I did become much more interested and involved after watching And the Band Played On when it was first broadcast in 1993 or 1994; I got involved with my local AIDS outreach organization, I volunteered when the Names Project made a stop at the local university, and I devoted 2 years of volunteering (and my senior year college internship) working with another AIDS service agency. This is a topic very, very close to my heart, and I love that this book gave me a new narrative about how we got through the worst of it. I think it should be required reading, but I also acknowledge how many people refuse to accept what a murderous bastard Reagan really was.