I Don’t Want To Talk About It: A Biography Of AIDS Warrior Tony Carden

I Don't Want to Talk About It a biography of AIDS warrior Tony Carden takes readers on a mother-and-son journey across the rocky terrain of child sexual abuse, homophobia and living and dying with HIV/AIDS. It is Tony's other family, Sydney's gay community, who shoulder the weight of caring as they lead Lesley across a chasm of misunderstanding, just in time. Tony's story covers the historic record of Sydney's chapter of Act Up and reveals how a group of activists put aside traditional banner-waving and slogan-chanting to turn their protests into theatrical performances, achieving results that saw Australia become one of the first Western countries to reverse the rate of infection. In response to their suffering, gay communities expressed their pain through art. Two such artworks live on to commemorate Tony Carden and those he saw as AIDS Warriors Written by Lesley Saddington