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Loss and Bravery: Intimate Snapshots From the First Decade of the AIDS Crisis (ph. Sarah Krulwich, Jim Estrin, Terrence McCarthy)
1. Members of Act Up (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) demonstrating during rush hour in Grand Central Terminal (Jan. 23, 1991)
2. At Coming Home Hospice in San Francisco, David Brewster, an AIDS patient, being attended to by his friend Michael Bolleri (Jan. 29, 1989)
3. Andrew Weisser, a volunteer cook, serving a meal at Our House, a Los Angeles facility that helped people with AIDS (Jan. 29, 1989)
4. Margie Wilson dancing to a music video with her foster children, who have AIDS (May 5, 1988)
5. Volunteers at the Names Project in San Francisco sewing quilt panels to memorialize those who have died of AIDS (Sept. 23, 1987)
6. Robert Sanford, having relearned to play the piano without the benefit of sight, at a recital at the Lighthouse, a New York association for the blind
7. Near the Ugandan town of Masaka, a 28-year-old Ugandan woman being comforted by Maureen Nakimera, a social worker from an AIDS support organization (Aug. 23, 1990)
as a queer person #FellowTravelers already means a lot, but THIS episode8-finale ep-ending scene? this scene means absolutely the world, it's everything, for all of us.🌈
can't watch it without sobbing.
(please do check the WHOLE post, and watch How to Survive a Plague 2012, it's a MUST watch (+everything you spot in this post)
+important reading about AIDS/HIV: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/139102124?shelf=about-aids-hiv
On World AIDS Day, I remember my aunt Billie June and my cousin Roy. Technically my cousin died of starvation after he decided he couldn't cope any longer with several years of AIDS symptoms, and she died of a stroke from grief, but it was AIDS killed them. I love and miss both of them.
Today marks #WorldAIDSDay, a time to show support for people living with #HIV and those who lost their lives to AIDS.
First commemorated in 1988, World AIDS Day raises awareness to end the spread of HIV and the stigma and discrimination that surrounds it.
Despite the progress made, HIV is still a major public health threat globally. In 2021, there were 1.5 million new HIV infections. In particular, girls in sub-Saharan Africa continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV, accounting for 63% of the region's new HIV infections in 2021.
However, it's important to know that in our modern era, people with HIV live long and happy lives thanks to access to antiretroviral therapy (ART). People living with HIV deserve care, not punishment.
To end AIDS, we must look and address underlying inequalities. Solutions include:
Increase availability of HIV testing, treatment and prevention (such as PrEP).
Reform laws and policies that perpetuate the stigma and exclusion of people living with HIV.
Ensure equal access to the best HIV science, between the Global South and North.
Collaboration with UNFPA
[Digital illustration of a Black fem with long curly hair. She’s wearing a white shirt that reads, “Living with HIV doesn't define me.” She’s also wearing gray jeans, a red ribbon and a black choker necklace. Behind her is a sky of gray clouds and a moon.]
"In the early 1980s, a strange new disease began to spread within the United States (though it’s now believed that the earliest recorded cases were in Norway in the 60s). This disease was mostly found among gay men and intravenous drug users — otherwise healthy men who were falling ill with rare conditions generally only seen in those who are immunocompromised. People didn’t know why it was happening; they were afraid and unsure of how it was spread, but before much else was known of the disease, the press were calling it “GRID” (gay-related immunodeficiency). This led to the phenomenon being seen as a “gay disease” that was risking the health of the general population, and also made the illness easy for many straight people to ignore, because they could pretend that it was irrelevant to their own lives. There was an enormous backlash against the gay community, and rampant homophobia delayed research and treatment advances that might have significantly slowed or prevented the spread of what soon became known as HIV.
"In time, it became understood that HIV was transmitted sexually or through blood, and it also started appearing in populations other than gay men. Some of this spread was from blood transfusions, some through intravenous drug use, and some through sexual contact. This is when the myth of the bi man as a disease vector began to circulate; it was supposed that bi men were getting HIV from gay men, and then spreading it to the straight community. It was also assumed that these men would lie about their same-sex encounters and were thus intentionally putting innocent straight women at risk.
"This narrative, which was completely unsubstantiated by any research, was circulated widely by the press. It especially stigmatized black bi men, claiming that they were practicing unsafe sex on the “DL” (down low), cheating with other men, and bringing the disease home to their female partners. This assumption plays on (and reinforces) the idea that bi people — and bi men in particular — are hypersexual, unable to control their sexual desires, fundamentally dishonest, and unclean. And because HIV was characterized as a “gay” disease, there was very little real discussion of transmission in strictly heterosexual settings."
Hello. I am looking for books about the aids crisis that are inclusive of bisexuals too, that talk about how bi people suffered too and so on. Are there any books like that?
Bi America: Myths, Truths, and Struggles of An Invisible Community is a great starting point! This book covers the formation of the bi community, but it also has a section dedicated specifically to AIDs and its impact on bisexual people
Although not specifically focused on AIDs, I also always like recommending Bisexual Men Exist by Vaneet Mehta as a good contemporary look at the current issues facing the community
I'm not sure if you saw it already, but I also have a recommended reading list for World AIDs Day up on my wordpress blog that includes books covering the history of AIDs, the activism programs that rose in response, essays on healthcare written by queer people, memoirs of those impacted by AIDs, and poetry collections
I know that's only a few titles, but I hope that at least points you in the right direction. Thank you for the ask!
"We are here to celebrate the life of Freddie Mercury, an extraordinary rock star who rushed across our cultural landscape like a comet shooting across the sky. We are also here to tell the whole world that he, like others we have lost to AIDS, died before his time.
The bright light of his talent exhilarates us even now that his life has been so cruelly extinguished.
I needn't have happened.
It shouldn't have happened.
Please let's not let it happen again"
- Elizabeth Taylor
'The Freddie Mercury Tribute', April 20, 1992
- Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011), British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian -
📸 'Magic Tour'
Summer 1986
July 27th, 1986 - Queen Story!
Queen perform at the Nepstadion, Budapest, Hungary
👉 December 1st, 2019 - World AIDS Day
🔸In 1988, the WHO declared 1st December as the first World AIDS Day.
The groundwork was laid for a nationwide HIV and AIDS care system in the USA that was later funded by the Ryan White CARE Act.
1991
In 1991, the Visual AIDS Artists Caucus launched the Red Ribbon Project to create a symbol of compassion for people living with HIV and their carers. The red ribbon became an international symbol of AIDS awareness.
(read on: https://www.avert.org/professionals/history-hiv-aids/overview)
Since 1988, World AIDS Day (1 December) has provided a platform to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, and to honor the lives affected by the epidemic. Take time to remember, reflect, and renew today--and everyday.