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David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teenager runaway who hardly finished high school, but he surfaced as you of the most crucial voices of his era. He found his tribe in New York's East Town, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for drugs, blight, and a burgeoning skill scene. His creative imagination spilled out in paintings, photos, films, text messages, installations, and in his life and its recounting - creating a sort of mythos around himself. His circle of East Town artists moved into the national spotlight as the Helps plague commenced its devastating advance, so that right-wing culture warriors reared their minds. As Wojnarowicz's reputation as an artist grew, so does his reputation as an agitator - because he dealt so openly with his homosexuality, so angrily with his circumstances as a Person With Helps, and so fiercely with his would-be censors. Fireplace in the Abdomen is the untold story of your polarizing amount at a pivotal point in time in American culture - and one of the most highly acclaimed biographies of the entire year.