Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s

By Katie Batza 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body 0 comments

This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.

Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic

By Richard McKay Author Interviews, Canada, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body 1 comment

How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?

Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border

By Shane Doyle African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS 0 comments

Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?

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

By Mindy Chateauvert HIV/AIDS, Medicine and the Body 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 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ 0 comments

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

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

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.