Pandemics
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From To Make a Whore Of |
In this chapter, the author describes her mother’s ailing health and eventual death from AIDS. | Emily Stern | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
From Andy Bell Made Me Gay |
This chapter concerns the author’s youthful sexual experiences, and how he felt that he was going to die because he was gay. | Dan Cullinane | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From Lucky |
In this chapter, the author describes his upbringing as a young gay Black man in Canton, Ohio. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1995, but protease inhibitor medication successfully treated his condition. | Eddie Walker | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From To Say Good-Bye |
This essay details the author’s HIV diagnosis in the late 1990s, and how he feels discomfited by the Bay Area because of his history there. | Andrew R. Spieldenner | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From Rea |
In this chapter, the author describes his realtionship with a sexual health nurse. | Hugh Ryan | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From Lie Back and Get Comfortable |
This essay concerns the youthful experiences of a Jewish woman as she confronts the anti-queer predudice of her mother. | Liz Rosenfeld | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From Leaving Atlanta |
This chapter describes the author’s friendship with their uncle, who was gay and died of AIDS when the Moore was young. | Stephen H. Moore | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
From Old Testament |
In this essay, the author describes his dissatisfaction with public health campaigns aimed at mitigating the AIDS crisis, since they frame people like him as scary risks from which others must be … | Alexander McClelland | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From The Conversations We Need to Save Each Other’s Lives |
This chapter is a dialogue betweeen two activists who met at the International AIDS Conference in 2008. | Charles Ryan Long and Theodore (Ted) Kerr | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From Scar Tissue |
In this chapter, the author discusses how he "grew up on a steady diet of AIDS fear," and the impact that has had on adult life. | Adrian Ryan | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From Got AIDS Yet? |
In this essay, the author recounts seeing bathroom graffiti reading "Got AIDS Yet?" at age 8 or 9, and feeling frozen in terror. He grew up with a deep fear of sex that was only … | Aaron Nielson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
From Please, We All Gonna Get ItTrans Women on Inevitability, Health Care, and the Cure |
In this conversation, the authors share their experiences accessing health care, their thoughts on trans representation and chosen families, their relationship to the HIV/AIDS crisis, and their … | Rory Elliot with Alyssa Pariah and Gaysha Starr | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
From Fearing El Sida |
In this chapter, Betancourt explores the personalization of AIDS in Columbia, where it was known as El Sida. | Manuel Betancourt | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Looking for Gaëtan |
This chapter explores the historicization of the AIDS epidemic, and discusses some myths about Gaëtan Dugas, the so-called "Patient Zero." | Ryan Conrad | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
From Jason & David |
In this chapter, the author discusses his attempts to create a performance piece that juxtaposed images from his childhood with stories and images from the lives of gay artists who had died of … | Dan Fishback | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From Homeless Youth Are Still Dying of AIDS |
This essay describes the author’s experiences as a homeless "baby dyke," and how terror surrounding AIDS effected her at a young age. She later received the kind of sex eduation … | Sassafras Lowrey | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |