Undisclosed: Secrets of the AIDS Epidemic

by Michal Milstein, Marlin Marynick

Undisclosed is a groundbreaking collection of survival memoirs from the early AIDS epidemic, compiled in observance of the 30th anniversary of the first American diagnosis. Some notable contributors include Gene Matarese and Michael Smithwick, America’s longest-surviving AIDS patients, as well as Dr. Mark Katz, one of the country’s preeminent HIV/AIDS physicians. The authors explore the rise of the disease in America’s gay community and leave no stone unturned, weighing statistics against experience. Dr. Alan Cantwell, an AIDS physician and skeptic, challenges the traditional “creation myth” of the American HIV/AIDS epidemic. Although the mystery may never be completely solved, Undisclosed sheds light on the misunderstandings of the dawn of the American epidemic.

207 pages, ebook

First published December 1, 2011