ISBN At Your Own Risk book English Paperback 176 pages

Impassioned, witty and polemical,At Your Own Riskis Derek Jarman's defiant celebration of gay sexuality.
InAt Your Own Risk, Derek Jarman weaves poetry, prose, photographs and newspaper extracts into a rich tapestry of gay experience in the UK. The buttoned-up repression of the fifties and sixties makes way for liberation and free love in the seventies, only to be chased by the terror and pain of HIV/AIDS. This is Jarman at his passionate best, written when he was already ill with HIV and in the midst of the moral panic surrounding the AIDS crisis. Defiant and furious, he not only celebrates his own sexuality but skewers wider society for its brazen homophobia.
Reissued here 25 years after Jarman's death, with an introduction byStraight Jacketauthor Matthew Todd,At Your Own Riskremains a singular work. It is a powerful reminder of how far we have come and how much further we have left to go.
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