scholarly journals Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’: Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802098490
Author(s):  
John Paul Catungal ◽  
Benjamin Klassen ◽  
Robert Ablenas ◽  
Sandy Lambert ◽  
Sarah Chown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Systems Of Care ◽  
The West ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Gendered Politics ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Social Geographies ◽  
Long Term Survivors ◽  
Differentiated Care ◽  
Hiv Aids

Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspectives of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS (LTS) in Vancouver to highlight the differentiated care geographies of HIV/AIDS that resulted from the racialised, classed and gendered politics and urban imaginations enacted by gay and allied HIV/AIDS organising. Though LTS networks, spaces and politics of care and community were more extended than Vancouver’s gay community during the 1980s and 1990s, the centring of the West End gay village in many community-led responses to HIV/AIDS resulted in LTS geographies outside the West End being excluded from important systems of care and community. LTS narratives of the city at the time of the ‘gay disease’ thus tell an urban politics of sexual and health activisms as shaped not only by processes of heteronormativity and homophobia but also of racially, colonially and class-inflected homonormative urban imaginaries.

Promiske Sexualität oder monogame Beziehung?

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (84) ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Adrian Lehne ◽  
Veronika Springmann
Keyword(s):  
Safer Sex ◽  
The West ◽  
Central Topic ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Norms ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract A question that was and remains central to the history of homosexualities is how relationships and sexuality are interlinked. Through discussions around heteronormative relationship norms, the West German gay1 (liberation/rights) movement engaged in heated debates around the question of how sexuality could and should be lived out. This article outlines that debate, starting with the release of Rosa von Praunheim’s film »Nicht der Homosexuelle ist pervers, sondern die Situation, in der er lebt« (»It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives«; 1971) and proceeding to examine the convulsions of the AIDS crisis. As the debate went on, its focus shif ted from morality to responsibility as the central topic. The increasing visibility of lived sexuality brought about by AIDS and the development of safer sex in reaction to HIV/AIDS in particular contributed to establishing the concept of responsible sexuality. This concept could in turn be positioned against a coupling of relationship and sexuality predicated on moral imperatives.

scholarly journals Un sujet marginal: les communautés LGBTQ assimilées à de boucs émissaires dans le film 120 battements par minute

FRANCISOLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Rosidin Ali SYABANA ◽  
Wening UDASMORO
Keyword(s):  
Grand Nombre ◽  
Mots Clés ◽  
The West ◽  
Multimodal Discourse Analysis ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Analyse Du Discours ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
Hiv Aids

RÉSUMÉ. Cet article porte un regard sur le grand nombre de films allosexuels produits par les pays occidentaux qui donnent une visibilité aux communautés homosexuelles, bisexuelle, transgenre, transsexuelle ou queer (LGBTQ). Cependant, elles restent marginalisées. Considérées comme des parasites qui renversent des valeurs ancestrales conventionnelles, les communautés LGBTQ servent  de boucs émissaires pour endosser la responsabilité de la propagation du VIH/SIDA et de cette crise de l'épidémie. Le film 120 Battements par Minute réalisé par Robin Campillo est un film qui traite du rôle et du bouc émissaire incarné par les groupes LGBTQ. Cet article utilise la théorie du bouc émissaire par Girard (1982)  en révélant que dans une société, il existe toujours un groupe sacrifié stigmatisé en temps de crise. Cet article utilise l'analyse du discours multimodal de Gunther Kress et Theo Van Leewuen (2004) pour analyser des extraits du film. La conclusion montre que le système de bouc émissaire utilise des stéréotypes et des préjugés en identifiant un groupe qui est proche de la crise pour ensuite le nommer en tant que victime. Puisque les premiers cas détectés de patients infectés par VIH/SIDA sont issus de communautés LGBTQ, elles sont donc considérées comme responsables de la crise. Mots-clés : analyse du discours multimodal, bouc émissaire, film allosexuel, VIH/SIDA.     ABSTRACT. This article explores how LGBTQ people in the West use film as a space for narrating themselves. LGBTQ people remain marginalized, being stigmatized as parasites who disrupt the established socio-cultural order and blamed for HIV/AIDS pandemic. Robin Campillo's film 120 Battements par Minute (120 Beats per Minute) deals specifically with how the LGBTQ community has been scapegoated. Girard argues that, when a crisis occurs, a social group must be sacrificed during a crisis occurs in order to resolve it. For its analysis, this article applies the multimodal discourse approach proposed by Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leewuen to images and still frames from the film, finding that the LGBTQ community has been scapegoated through stereotypes and prejudices. As they have been popularly identified with the HIV/AIDS crisis, members of the LGBTQ community have been blamed—and expected to take responsibility—for it. Keywords: Multimodal Discourse analysis, scapegoat, LGBT film, HIV/AIDS.

Confronting the Deadly HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Our Nation's Youths

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Wodarski
Keyword(s):  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Hiv Aids

Epidemiological characteristics of HIV/AIDS in west China

2006 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 324-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhi Hu ◽  
Xia Qin ◽  
Min-Zhen Zhu ◽  
Sen Yang ◽  
Xue-Jun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviour ◽  
The West ◽  
Access To Treatment ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Epidemiological Characteristics ◽  
Hiv Aids

China is facing a major crisis because of the increasing epidemic of HIV/AIDS, especially in the western areas. The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of the crisis by analysing the published literature on the epidemiology, demographic features, routes of infection, and risk factors of HIV/AIDS infection in the 12 provinces in the west of China. HIV/AIDS has increased rapidly in recent years. The situation is urgent and requires comprehensive action. China's health care system is decentralized and under-funded, and access to treatment by the poor is seriously limited. There is a lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS in the general public and health care workers. The HIV/AIDS epidemic emerged initially in western areas of the country by means of intravenous drug use, but sexual risk behaviour and mother-to-child transmissions in the west of China are becoming important for HIV transmission.

The nutritional role of indigenous foods in mitigating the HIV/AIDS crisis in West and Central Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Kengni ◽  
C.M.F. Mbofung ◽  
M.F. Tchouanguep ◽  
Z. Tchoundjeu
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
West And Central Africa ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals A Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among Blacks in the United States, 1981–2009

2009 ◽  
Vol 99 (S2) ◽  
pp. S351-S359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Y. Sutton ◽  
Rhondette L. Jones ◽  
Richard J. Wolitski ◽  
Janet C. Cleveland ◽  
Hazel D. Dean ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Disease Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Centers For Disease Control ◽  
Hiv Aids

Educating the Heart: Fostering Hope Through Theatre in the AIDS Crisis in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meghan Ward
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Development ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Theatrical Representation ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
International Development Studies ◽  
Hiv Aids

With approximately 5.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, South Africa has the highest HIV­ prevalence rate in the world. HIV tends to strike the most vulnerable people in society, and is often associated with high risk behaviours, which inevitably leads to stigmatization. Through an integration of theatre and development theory, I propose to investigate the potential of using theatre as a community event that raises awareness of collective issues and that offers new hope to people living with HIV. I suggest that theatre can educate the heart and put a human face on HIV/AIDS, thus catalyzing a healing process at the community level. By targeting township youth, those who are currently driving the virus, an interactive theatre style, such as participatory methodology, can effectively move beyond didactic education. In participatory theatre, the target group is incorporated into the theatrical representation of their circumstances through the performance of personal testimonies associated with HIV. Here, the power of theatre lies in its ability to produce individual reactions in the audience, which ultimately result in a collective experience and elevated consciousness through the discussion that ensues. The community is thus empowered to engage in a new ap proach to HIV/AIDS. Can such a performance prevent further infections by exposing the consequences and realities of living with AIDS? While a test­case would be ideal in the affirmation of these ideas, I hope to bring a new approach to community theatre through a combination of theories from both theatre and international development studies.

HIV/AIDS, Loss and the Australian Gay Community

2016 ◽  
pp. 162-182
Author(s):  
Robert Reynolds ◽  
Shirleene Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Gay Community ◽  
Hiv Aids

Pose and HIV/AIDS

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-624
Author(s):  
Laura Stamm
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Aids Crisis ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract This article examines how the television series Pose (2018–) represents queer and trans people of color living with HIV/AIDS at the height of the crisis in 1987. While the series portrays an important part of transgender history, it also positions the AIDS crisis as something that is done and part of America's past. Despite the fact that rates of HIV infection remain at epidemic rates for trans women of color, Pose, like many other mainstream media representations, suggests that the AIDS crisis ended in 1995. The series brings trans women of color's experiences to a record number of viewers, but that representation comes with a certain cost—the cost of historicization.

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