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Welcome to Chechnya
David France on risking his life to reveal the horror of a queer Holocaust in ‘Welcome to Chechnya’
David France has returned.The classy, intellectual activist began his career as a journalist in the 1980s, penning works for The New York Times, Newsweek and The New York Post. Though his career thrived in the early 80s, France found himself out of a job, fired for being gay at the height of the AIDS crisis. The 1990s & 2000s saw him rebound as a war correspondent and queer voice, with his nonfiction book How to Survive a Plague landing on the bestseller charts.