-Never Silent-is a gorgeous book . . .-Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who-s thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world.- -Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of-Angels in America2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTThe previously untold stories of the life of the leading subject in David France-s How To Survive A Plague,-Peter Staley, including his continuing activism. In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter Staley: massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. After four years on Wall Street as a closeted gay man, Staley was familiar with the homophobia common on trading floors. He also knew that he was not beyond the reach of HIV, having recently been diagnosed with AIDS-Related Complex. A week after the protest, Staley found his way to a packed meeting of the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power-ACT UP-in the West Village. It would prove to be the best decision he ever made. ACT UP would change the course of AIDS, pres
