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Michael Callen (April 11, 1955 – December 27, 1993) was an American singer, songwriter, composer, author, and AIDS activist. Callen was diagnosed with AIDS in 1982 and became a pioneer of AIDS activism in New York City, working closely with his doctor, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and Richard Berkowitz.
Michael Callan (born Martin Calinoff November 22, 1935 – October 10, 2022), sometimes known as Mickey Collins, was an American actor best known for originating the role of Riff in West Side Story on Broadway, and for his film roles for Columbia Pictures, notably Gidget Goes Hawaiian, The Interns and Cat Ballou.
As a composer, singer, writer and AIDS activist, Michael Callen played a major role in shaping America’s response to the epidemic. Callen was an AIDS activist before there was an AIDS movement.
Dec 29, 1993 · Michael Callen, a writer and singer who embodied for a dozen years the possibility of long-term survival with AIDS, died of the disease Monday night at Midway Hospital in Los Angeles.
Learn about Michael Callen, a co-inventor of safe sex, a co-founder of the People With AIDS movement, and a member of the Flirtations. Explore his music and writing on his posthumous home page.
Callen’s Divaisms, defiant assertions of flamboyant sissyhood and of strength, speak perfectly to his political aims: Tin Pan Alley has always accommodated the tragic and the jubilant with redemptive, irresistible grace.
Nov 5, 2020 · Love Don’t Need a Reason focuses on Callen’s most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis, Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song.
