At once a memoir and a polemical essay, personal exploration and portrait of a troubled time, Visions and Revisions pays particularly close attention to those involved with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), a direct action group created by author and activist Larry Kramer to advocate on behalf of people with AIDS. Few organizations changed the conversation about AIDS in America and, eventually, the world, as much as ACT UP.
Peck’s criticism of the idle establishment that allowed AIDS to go unchecked for years is both fiery and clear-eyed, tempered all the while by moving portraits of the artists, writers, activists and HIV-positive people whose lives Dale encountered, sometimes from afar and others times from painfully close relationships.
