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Garry Wotherspoon

Garry Wotherspoon

Garry Wotherspoon is a writer and historian, a former academic and a former NSW History Fellow. His books include Sydney’s Transport: Studies in urban history; Being Different: Nine gay men remember; The Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts: A history (shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards); and Gay Sydney: A history (shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards). He was awarded Australia’s Centenary of Federation medal for his work as an academic, researcher, and human rights activist.

Garry Wotherspoon reviews 'Fighting for Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS' by Nick Cook

May 2020, no. 421 27 April 2020
It is quite an apposite time for the appearance of Nick Cook’s Fighting for Our Lives: The history of a community response to AIDS, when the world is dealing with the impact of another deadly virus. There are always lessons to be learned: where better to start than from historical experience. It was nearly four decades ago, in November 1982, that the first case of HIV/AIDS was diagnosed in Sydn ... (read more)