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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.
Michael Callan (born Martin Calinoff November 22, 1935 – October 10, 2022), sometimes known as Mickey Collins, was an American actor best known for originating the role of Riff in West Side Story on Broadway, and for his film roles for Columbia Pictures, notably Gidget Goes Hawaiian, The Interns and Cat Ballou.
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.
Dec 29, 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...
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 ...
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.
Nov 5, 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.
Feb 28, 1989 · Six-and-a-half years after he was found to have AIDS, Michael Callen--author, activist, singer and songwriter--half-jokingly credits his longevity to “luck, Classic Coke and the love of...
Mar 16, 2021 · The legacy of Callen is now remembered in Love Don't Need a Reason: The Life and Music of Michael Callen, a new full-length biography by gay historian Matthew J. Jones. The book is a riveting account of Callen's 38 year sojourn on Earth and leaves little out.
Mar 21, 2014 · Michael Callen, a singer, songwriter and pioneering AIDS activist from the Midwest, had already passed away two years earlier. Here's an excerpt from Duberman's moving...
