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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 Angeles. He was 38...
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 · Feb. 28, 1989 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Six-and-a-half years after he was found to have AIDS, Michael Callen--author, activist, singer and songwriter--half-jokingly credits his longevity...
The Posthumous Home Page of Michael Callen. 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 ...
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.
More than a testament to Callen’s immense willpower, the singing you hear is in a sense produced in collaboration with, or at the very least accompanied by the plague, transformed through artistry into incredible music.
Mar 20, 2014 · July 30 2018 10:57 PM EST. From award-winning historian and activist Martin Duberman comes the poignant new dual biography of two men central to activism in the early days of the AIDS epidemic,...
