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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.
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.
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 ...
Nov 5, 2019 · If there were a Mount Rushmore of iconic AIDS activists, Michael Callen’s likeness would definitely be sculpted among the greats. Before his death in December 1993, Callen helped found numerous HIV organizations and played a role in developing guidelines for safer sex and the self-empowerment of people with AIDS.
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,...
