Open Access Facilitates Rereading of LGBT Equality Legacy - The University of Chicago Library News - The University of Chicago Library

"In celebration of Open Access Week, the University of Chicago Library will host a webinar on October 24 featuring author John-Manuel Andriote discussing why he chooses to prioritize community over commercialization by granting open access to his book, Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America.

When Victory Deferred was published in 1999, it was acclaimed as a significant chronicle of how the LGBT community’s responses to HIV-AIDS had transformed the equality movement for the marginalized people. The book subsequently won a Lambda Literary Award (Editors’ Choice Award), and was a finalist for the American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards and the New York Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction respectively...."