Joana Matias Tradition says that when the first Portuguese celebrity rumored to have contracted HIV, queer pop icon António Variações, passed in 1984, the fear of contagion was by then so entrenched that the authorities ordered his coffin be sealed. But gay men fortunate enough to get their hands on […]
HIV/AIDS
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.
Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
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
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
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
Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
The Curious Connections between Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and the marriage equality have been the two events that have most affected LGBT lives.