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Michael Callen (April 11, 1955 – December 27, 1993) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, author, and AIDS activist. Callen was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and became a pioneer of AIDS activism in New York City, working closely with his doctor, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and Richard Berkowitz.
As a composer, singer, writer and AIDS activist, Michael Callen played a major role in shaping America’s response to the epidemic. Callen was an AIDS activist before there was an AIDS movement.
Who was Michael Callen? Singer, songwriter, AIDS activist and author, Michael is recognized as a co-inventor of safe (r) sex; a co-founder of the People With AIDS self-empowerment movement; a founder of community-based AIDS research; a member of the world’s most famous a cappella, gay male, politically aware singing group, THE FLIRTATIONS; a ...
5. Nov. 2020 · Love Don’t Need a Reason focuses on Callen’s most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis, Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song.
Michael Callen was an American singer, songwriter, composer, author, and AIDS activist. Callen was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and became a pioneer of AIDS activism in New York City, working closely with his doctor, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and Richard Berkowitz. Together, they published articles and pamphlets to raise awareness about the correlation between risky sexual behaviors and AIDS. As a ...
29. Dez. 1993 · Michael Callen, a writer and singer who embodied for a dozen years the possibility of long-term survival with AIDS, died of the disease Monday night at Midway Hospital in Los...
If the AIDS militant movement had been the early Russian Revolution, and ACT UP the Bolsheviks, Callen would have been one of the left-anarchist faction groups: in revolutionary solidarity, but dissenting. For one thing, he didn’t believe HIV caused AIDS. For another thing, he admitted uncertainty and he rarely prescribed—action or drugs ...
