#Joseph Sonnabend

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Joseph Sonnabend (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 6 January 1933 

DOD: 24 January 2021

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Nationality: South African

Occupation: Doctor, scientist, researcher, AIDS activist

Note: One of the first physicians to notice among his gay male patients the immune deficiency that would later be named AIDS. During the height of the AIDS crisis, Sonnabend helped create several AIDS organisations.

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In this episode of POZ at Home hosted by The Sero Project, POZ founder Sean Strub has a conversation with Dr. Stuart Schlossman and Dr. Joseph Sonnabend about the early days of AIDS research. 

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Sex Positive (2008)

Sex Positive is the story of Richard Berkowitz, a controversial gay S&M sex worker turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, who along with Dr. Joseph Sonnabend and beloved activist and artist Michael Callen, helped invent the idea of ‘safe sex’. Berkowitz emerged from the epicentre of the epidemic demanding a solution before anyone else would pay attention.

Directed by Daryl Wein, Sex Positive explores Berkowitz's life and his contribution to the invention of safe sex. Aside from  Richard Berkowitz, the movie also features Dotty Berkowitz (his mother), Don Adler, Susan Brown, Demetre Daskalakis, Richard Dworkin, William A. Haseltine, Larry Kramer, Ardele Lister, Michael Lucas, Francisco Roque, Gabriel Rotello, Joseph Sonnabend, Bill Stackhouse, Krishna Stone, Sean Strub, and Edmund White.

This woefully short but incredibly deep movie about a complex subject doesn’t shy away from telling the story from as many sides as possible, and is one of my favourite documentaries. In 2008, the film won the Grand Jury Award at the Los Angeles Outfest for "Best Documentary Feature".

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It’s often hard to find posts that are pro-kink and pro-ace, so I decided to make one.

I was going to start this off with a list of statements that “can and should coexist” but for much the same reason that this post is going to be an essay unto itself, it is too complicated a subject to condense into such a nice pithy format. Recently I have reblogged some posts in favor of the presence of kink at pride. I have not changed on this regard but unfortunately this issue is also used by exclusionists to direct attacks at a-spec people. As such it is often hard to find posts that are pro-kink and pro-ace, so I decided to make one.

The queer community is a massive and diverse group and with that diversity comes conflict. There is no one size fits all solution. What helps one part of the community will not necessarily benefit another. Gay bars are a great place to meet people. They are also loud, crowded, and serve alcohol which makes them difficult for people with sensory over stimulation or substance abuse issues. So people who want these spaces are often accused of being prudes and people who want to include kink at pride are often accused of being deviants. And oddly I can think of a historical figure who has had both of these accusations leveled at him. Cue historical flashback for a Very Special Episode.

Richard Berkowitz was in his own words an S&M Hustler. He was a sex worker and professional Dom. He is Jewish, lives in New York, has a degree in Journalism from Rutgers and called his mom in New Jersey everyday. He is also one of the co-inventors of Safe Sex.

In the early 80s he was diagnosed with GRID. Gay Related Immunodeficiency which would later be called AIDS. He was a patient of Dr Joseph Sonnabend along with another man Michael Callen. Sonnabend was himself a gay man and an immunologist. Sonnabend hypothesized that GRID was spread through sex and was caused by “immune overload.” This was a hypothesis that was not popular in the gay community at large because many felt it validated the homophobic abuse that was constantly flung at the community. Sonnabend was not giften with words and was terrible as a science educator so Berkowitz and Callen teamed up to help him get the word out.

While the 60’s was known for the Free Love movement for straight people the seventies saw the repeal of many anti sodomy laws and it was the decade of free love for gay people. Many saw promiscuity as a part of that liberation. It should also be noted that at the time I am talking about no one knew yet what caused GRID, so the hypothesis that it was caused by promiscuity was viewed as tantamount to blasphemy. I should also note that Dr. Sonnabend was not claiming to be above promiscuity. He himself frequented gay bathhouses where many gay men would meet to have sex. Berkowitz and Callen met through Sonnabend and together worked to help Sonnabend to spread the word. Their first attempt was an article in the New York Native a local gay newspaper titled “We Know Who We Are.” The Native editorial staff insisted on a subtitle, “Two Gay Men Declare War on Promiscuity.”

Berkowitz and Callen were immediately reviled by the gay community of New York. They were accused of being prudes and self hating gay men. But they kept following Dr. Sonnabend and helping him communicate his findings and theories to the populace even if no one would listen to them. The next year was hard of them and journalism work wasn’t paying the bills for Berkowitz. He eventually returned to work as a Dom. However this time he worked with clients who wanted to be Dominated but not penetrated. As time went on he found ways of doing his job that minimized risk for both him and his clients. This led him and Callen to write a pamphlet on sexual health called “How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach” In it they explained the basics of Safe Sex that are now taught in Health Classrooms in the US. One of my favorite tips they gave was to love your partner even if it is just for one night. If you love them you won’t want to risk hurting them and you will be more careful.

The fate of different gay venues would continue to be a hot button issue in the community even to this day. There were arguments made about closing gay bars, sex clubs, and bathhouses in the name of public health. And there were arguments made to keep them open because many feared if they closed down they would never open again.  

So what am I getting at here? Well really I just wanted to highlight how the needs of the community can conflict with themselves. And how that conflict has always been part of the community. We need a diversity of spaces in order to embrace the diversity of our community. We need non sexual spaces. We need them for our a-spec siblings and so that I can go on a nice date with a guy and talk in peace and safety without having my ears blown out by a subwoofer. We need loud party spaces. We need places we can dance and grind and flirt with strangers. We need sexual spaces where people who are interested in kink can explore that interest with like minded people.

And finally we need to acknowledge that kink is an integral part of our community. Our community was built by sex workers and we need them. First and foremost they are a part of our community and they are valuable in their own right. But further, for many reasons that are too numerous to name many members of our community will experience their first time with a professional. Many queer people will for numerous reason be sex workers. Their involvement in our movement can help make us resistant to those who would sanitize Pride. It can make our events advertiser unfriendly and help keep corporate greed from monetizing our identities. We have to remember that although our community is becoming more respected, that respectability is not the goal. Liberation is the goal.

The First Pride was Riot.

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Joseph Sonnabend, Michael Callen, and Richard Berkowitz. AIDS activists involved in the PWA Health Group, an early buyers club for unapproved HIV treatments.

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Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

At the epicenter of the epidemic in New York City, he was a pioneer researcher who, as a clinician, also made house calls. Source: New York Times

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In the upcoming episode of POZ at Home hosted by The Sero Project, POZ Founder Sean Strub has a conversation with Dr. Stuart Schlossman and Dr. Joseph Sonnabend about the early days of AIDS research.

Visit pozathome.com/registration to register

Sean Strub is the executive director of The Sero Project, which aims to to end HIV criminalization, mass incarceration, racism and social injustice. Strub is a writer and long-time activist who has been living with HIV for more than 30 years.  He founded POZ Magazine, served on the board of the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and is the author of Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival(Scribner 2014).  He has been engaged in HIV-related stigma, discrimination, criminalization and empowerment issues since the earliest days of the epidemic.

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Dr. Stuart Schlossman began his studies of the human T cell in the early 1970’s and he and his colleagues have been responsible for the discovery of cell surface proteins which can identify populations of lymphoid cells having distinct functions and which are characteristically altered in various disorders of immunity. Schlossman using cellular and molecular techniques was the first to define the CD4 and CD8 subsets of human T lymphocytes and the CD3- T cell receptor complex which resulted in a major understanding of the function of individual T cell populations and the mechanism of antigen recognition. Thus, he has provided clinical research with powerful diagnostic tools for the analysis and understanding of the contribution of the of the immune response to host defenses in infectious, autoimmune and immunodeficiency diseases.

Dr. Joseph Sonnabend is a physician, scientist and HIV researcher notable for pioneering community-based research, the propagation of safe sex to prevent infection, and an early multifactorial model of AIDS. Sonnabend was one of the first physicians to notice among his gay male patients the immune deficiency that would later be named AIDS, and during the 1980s and 1990s he treated many hundreds of people with HIV. During the height of the AIDS crisis, Sonnabend helped create several AIDS organizations, including the AIDS Medical Foundation (now amfAR), the Community Research Initiative (ACRIA), which pioneered community-based research and the PWA Health Group, the first and largest formally recognized buyers’ club.

Click here to read Dr. Sonnabend’s blog on POZ.

This program is hosted by Sero and created in partnership with the World AIDS Museum.

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Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

Joseph Adolph Sonnabend was born on Jan. 6, 1933, in Johannesburg and grew up in Bulawayo, in what was then Rhodesia.

His mother, Fira, who grew up in Russia and studied in Italy, was a family doctor, one of the first Western-trained female physicians in Rhodesia and a champion of birth control. His father, Heinrich, originally from Germany, was a professor of psychology and sociology. They filled the house with art and music — including piano lessons for Joseph — and shared a commitment to social and racial justice.

Joseph graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1956 and from the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in 1961.

He trained at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, a suburb of London, working with colleagues who made important discoveries involving interferons, naturally occurring proteins that interfere with viruses.

Moving to New York, he continued that research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He moonlighted with the New York City Health Department, where he tracked outbreaks of sexually transmitted diseases.

When he opened his clinic and began treating people with AIDS, the co-op board in his building sought to evict him, saying that having AIDS patients troop through the lobby would lower property values. Dr. Sonnabend and five of his patients sued and won what became one of the first AIDS-related civil rights cases.

After 35 years in New York, he retired and moved to London.

Complete information on Dr. Sonnabend’s survivors was unavailable. He was briefly married and had two sons from other relationships. His sister, Yolanda Sonnabend, a renowned stage designer, died in 2015.

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