Intro; Contents; Foreword to the English-Language Edition by David M. Halperin; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. From the Gay Movement to the Fight against AIDS; Gay Mobilization before AIDS; The "Homophile" Movement; The Revolutionary Movement; Liberation Groups and Reformist Groups; The First Generation of AIDS Organizations; Protests and Public Expression of HIV-Positive Status; Emergence of Organizations of HIV-Positive Persons; HIV-Positive Status and Gay Demands; 2. The Birth and Rise of Act Up; Didier Lestrade: A Path

An Imported Model: AIDS Activism in the United StatesLarry Kramer: Founder or Leader?; Claiming a Legacy; Creation of Act Up-Paris; Conversions to Activism; Revelations; Interorganizational Positions; Media Relations; Rationales for Public Exposure and Journalistic Habitus; Firsthand Accounts, AIDS Organizations, and the Media; 3. A Theory of AIDS; The Political Etiology of AIDS; The Ghost of Foucault; Act Up and Michel Foucault: An Unexpected Connection?; An Indirect Influence (1); "Biopower" and the Fight against AIDS: An Unsettling Analogy; An Indirect Influence (2)

A Positional Rejection or an Illegitimate Legacy?Act Up versus Literary Representations of AIDS; 4. Gay Politics; The "Homosexualization" of AIDS under Debate; Constructing a Collective Identity; AIDS from the "Point of View" of Homosexuality; Building a Community; HIV-Positive Gay Identity as a Frame of Reference; Hierarchies of Experience and Identification; Act Up's Gay Image; Act Up and the Gay Pride March; Gay Activists and the Fight against AIDS; 5. Reconciling the Experiences of Homosexuality and AIDS through Activism; Sexual Orientations and Proximities to AIDS

Social and Sociosexual BackgroundsDegrees of Proximity to the Epidemic and Motives for Engagement; Gay Trajectories; Robin; Thomas; Socialization Effects; Paths of Gay Socialization; Bridging the Experiences of Homosexuality and AIDS; Ambivalences in the Recognition of People with HIV; 6. The Rationale for Public Action; Strategic Emotions; Uses of Violence; Violence According to Act Up; Violence Attributed to Activists; Experiencing Violence versus Inflicting Violence; Self-Inflicted Violence; 7. Activism, Grief, and Memory Politics; Grief and Activism; A "Grieving Machine"?

Act Up and Memorial PracticesPolitical Uses of Death and Memory; Naming the Deceased; Simulating Death; Political Funerals; Competing Memories; References to the History of Homosexuals; The Pink Triangle; Holocaust References; 8. The Emergence of Hope and Redefinition of Activism; Act Up's Response to Advances in Treatment; The First Sidaction and Its Impact; The Second Sidaction and Its Impact; Revival of Act Up's Gay Politics; The Fight for Recognition of Same-Sex Couples; The Threat of Outing; A New Identity?; A Paradigm Shift: From Despair to Hope; Hope versus Despair; Hope and Memory