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One night in June, 1994, Patsy Clarke sat down and wrote a long letter to her friend Jesse Helms. In it she recounted the last night of her son Mark's life "I sat by his bed, held his dear hand, and sang through that long last night the baby song that I had sung to all of our children." She had hoped to touch the heart of the notoriously homophobic senator, to ask him to soften his anti-gay stance, and to end his opposition to AIDS research funding. She failed. His callous reply "I wish Mark had not played Russian roulette in his sexual activity," first broke Patsy's heart, and then made her furious. Together with her friend Eloise Clark who too had lost a son to AIDS - also named Mark - they formed Mothers Against Jesse in Congress (MAJIC) to drive him from office. From their quiet North Carolina homes to the stage of the 1998 democratic Convention in Chicago, this is the inspiring story of two mothers, who gave a new face to the fight against bigotry and hatred. Their battle would put their names and faces in the pages of national newspapers and magazines, and their lives would be changed forever.
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Keep Singing : Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms
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Chapel Hill Press, Inc., 2004
ISBN 10: 1880849917
ISBN 13: 9781880849910
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