Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist

``In his strong title piece, novelist/playwright Kramer tells what it's like to be a gay male during the AIDS epidemic, watching one friend die after another. That sense of dire urgency informs the outspoken, at times controversial articles, essays, open letters and speeches in this compendium,'' maintained PW , adding that the pieces on infighting in the gay community grow tiresome. (Dec.)