Episode Four: Michael Callen (part two)

Part two of Michael Callen's story. In 1982, Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz are eviscerated by New York City's gay community after they publish an article advocating for the end of promiscuity. The pair of writers don't give up, though, and what they do next saves many lives and forever changes the way we have sex.

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Listen to Michael Callen's music on Bandcamp or Spotify. Learn more about Mike on his official website. In today's episode, you heard 'Living in Wartime', 'Love Don't Need a Reason', 'How to Have Sex', and 'See Here'. Music courtesy of Significant Other Records.

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Sources:

• Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS. Martin Duberman. 2014.
• Love Don't Need a Reason. Matthew Jones. 2020.
• How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tames AIDS. David France. 2016.
• Surviving AIDS. Michael Callen. 1990.
• We Know Who We Are. Richard Berkowitz & Michael Callen, with Richard Dworkin. New York Native, 1982.
• How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach. Michael Callen & Richard Berkowitz. 1983.
• Michael Callen Papers. Accessed via The Center.
• Interview with Richard Dworkin.
• Interview with Sean Strub, founder of POZ Magazine.
• Interview with Miriam Lewis Sabin, author of an upcoming biography on Joseph Sonnabend.

This episode was researched, hosted, and edited by Dane Stewart with music by Dane & Matthew Rogers. Produced by Dane Stewart & Matthew Kariatsumari.

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