Recs if you like How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS...

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

histories of sickness around the globe - death, destruction, and the fight for cures and eradication

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A diverse, essential guide to understanding HIV/AIDS through history, activism, and personal storytelling. Read, reflect, and share these revealing perspectives.

Public health: scientific, political, social, cultural, economic…

Memoirs and non-fiction from the queer community

The first and most enduring award for LGBTQIA+ books is the Stonewall Book Awards, sponsored by the American Library Association's Rainbow Round Table. Since Isabel Miller's Patience and Sarah received the first award in 1971, many other books have been honored for exceptional merit relating to the LGBTQIA+ experience.

The Stonewall Book Award-Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award are presented to English language works published the year prior to the announcement date. (from ala.org)

2016-2025

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language