Tag: AIDS

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert July 7, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS

By Michael Bronski June 14, 2016 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

HIV/AIDS and the marriage equality have been the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.

Dispatch from Fireball in Newark: The Ballroom Scene and Legendary Houses

By notcheseditor May 12, 2016 Dispatches 0 comments

Kristyn Scorsone, Naomi Extra, and Keishla Rivera * Fireball is a fast and furious DIY event. The structure of the ball is such that anyone can turn up announced and walk any category. The order rarely follows the program. As a result it is not possible to identify the participants […]

The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles March 8, 2016 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Dan Royles Dagmawi Woubshet’s The Calendar of Loss (Johns Hopkins, 2015) examines the politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia. The book details the ways in which early AIDS mourners used poetry, obituaries, visual art, and direct action protest both to commemorate […]

Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics

By Dan Royles August 26, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 1 comment

Dan Royles In 2012, the FDA approved Truvada, a popular antiretroviral drug, for use by HIV-negative people to prevent infection. The use of Truvada for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, has been controversial. Veteran AIDS activist Larry Kramer has called HIV-negative gay men who elect to take the drug “cowardly.” Some gay […]