Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Gray White
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Consumer Economy ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Special Rights ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter examines the lgbt marches of 1993 and 2000. It shows that the marches visibilized sexual minorities; made them feel whole and spiritually renewed, and helped people “come out.” It explores how the postmodern consumer economy led to increasing acceptance of lgbts in the 1990s; how the marches expanded the political movement spawned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and how lgbts came to express identities beyond sexuality. Ultimately, growth and greater freedom deepened the fault lines in the lgbt community including those between blacks and whites, lesbians and gays, normals and queers, conservatives and liberals. It shows how the special rights campaign mounted in the 1990s by homophobes put pressure on lgbts to assimilate, and how respectability politics prevailed at the 2000 march.

Challenging “Bare Life”

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-75
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Keyword(s):  
High Risk ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Peer Educators ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Outreach Workers ◽  
Hiv Aids

This chapter draws on Giorgio Agamben’s concept of “bare life” to show how prior to HIV/AIDS, sexual minorities experienced the state only through “raw power,” where rampant violence and abuse were the norm and the state freely consigned individuals to death by depriving them of resources. The management of “risk” in the light of the HIV/AIDS epidemic brought attention to the violence faced by sexual minorities, especially arbitrary police violence supported by criminal laws. During the earlier phases of the epidemic, peer educators and outreach workers—who were drawn from “high-risk” groups themselves—faced challenges and even violence in reaching out to their peers. Even carrying condoms for outreach purposes was seen as evidence of “criminal” sexual activity. This tension between peer educators and police reveals internal contradictions in the state; peer educators, who are at the cusp of state juridical and biopower, bring this contradiction in the state to the foreground.

scholarly journals Becoming MSM: Sexual Minorities and Public Health Regimes in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-45
Author(s):  
Alfred Montoya
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
The Us ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Hiv Aids

Abstract This article explores the discursive and practical marking of male sexual minorities in Vietnam, as targets of a series of biopolitical regimes whose aim, ostensibly, was and is to secure the health and wellbeing of the population (from the French colonial period to the present), regimes which linked biology, technoscientific intervention and normative sexuality in the service of state power. Campaigns against sex workers, drug users, and briefly male sexual minorities, seriously exacerbated the marginalization and stigmatization of these groups, particularly with the emergence of HIV/AIDS in Vietnam in 1990. This article also considers how the contemporary apparatus constructed to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic, one funded by the US, did not do away with these old forms, but reinscribed them with new language within a new regime that prioritizes quantification and technoscience.

scholarly journals Coordination of policy for the HIV/AIDS epidemic response: comparative analysis

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-117
Author(s):  
T. V. Semigina ◽  
◽  
K. O. Olhovets ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms ◽  
The Political ◽  
Effective Functioning ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Coordinating Councils ◽  
Political Traditions ◽  
Epidemic Response ◽  
Hiv Aids

The article discusses the theoretical basis for the study of the issue of coordination of policy for the HIV/AIDS epidemic response and the comparison of Ukrainian and foreign practices on coordinating councils’ activities on these issues are presented. The existing coordination mechanisms do not meet the political traditions and practices of most countries. Recommendations on the establishment of more effective functioning of the coordination councils are suggested.

Legalizing Sex

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaitanya Lakkimsetti
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Indian State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Hiv Aids

Based on twenty months of ethnographic research, the book looks at the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people in India have become visible in the Indian public sphere since the mid-1980s, when AIDS became an issue in India. Whereas sexual minorities were previously stigmatized and criminalized because of the threat of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Indian state started to fold these groups into national HIV/AIDS policies as “high-risk” groups for an effective response to the epidemic. The book argues that HIV/AIDS transformed the relationship between sexual minorities and the state from one focused on juridical exclusion to one focused on inclusion through biopower. The new relationship between the state and sexual minorities brought about by HIV/AIDS and the shared power communities felt with the state enabled them to demand rights and citizenship from the Indian state. In addition to paying attention to these transformations, the book also comparatively captures the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in India who have successfully mobilized against a colonial era anti-sodomy law, successfully petitioned in the courts for recognition of gender identity, and stalled attempts to criminalize sexual labor. This book uniquely brings together the struggles of sex workers and transgender and gay groups that are often studied separately.

Global Attention Needed to Combat HIV/AIDS Epidemic

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
SHARON WORCESTER
Keyword(s):  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Hiv Aids
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