I'll Not Go Quietly - Hardcover

In 1992 Fisher, who defines herself as a Republican mother in her early 40s, spoke at the Republican National Convention in Houston about her HIV-positive status. Since she discovered that she had contracted AIDS from her late husband, Brian, Fisher has been speaking to as many groups as possible, advocating a loving, caring and nonjudgmental attitude to those with AIDS or carrying the HIV virus. Like her previous collection, Sleep with the Angels, the 25 speeches collected here are inspiring and persuasive. Calling herself "a pilgrim on the road to AIDS," Fisher eloquently calls for an end to stigmatizing those who are HIV positive, and for a recognition that AIDS afflicts the rich and poor, gay and straight, black and white and children as well as adults. Fisher firmly believes that testing is an important tool in the fight against AIDS and here speaks in favor of a home testing kit produced by Johnson & Johnson. Moving b&w photos of Fisher's children accompany the text.
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In Sleep with the Angels, Fisher touched many when this "blonde Republican AIDS poster girl," who became HIV-positive through sexual contact with her husband, boldly moved beyond her cosmetic role and seriously tackled U.S. homophobia and fear of HIV. In her new collection of photographs and addresses, she provokes imagination, compassion, and activism as she pleads for an end to the ignorance, denial, and prejudice that continue to complicate the AIDS epidemic. It is fitting that the book begins with a memorial of her husband, who "died before both his children had cleared kindergarten," and ends in a tribute to her father, an industrialist and philanthropist committed to the goal of Jewish unity. Fisher's passion for community in a nation splintered by fright and uninformed preconceptions is evident throughout as she addresses audiences varying from physicians and caregivers to graduates at commencement and HIV-positive inmates at Riker's Island. Whitney Scott