Pandemics
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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 |
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From Leftover Lovers |
This chapter details the author’s experience with his school’s abstinance only sex education, which was stigmatizing, and the structural oppression that governed the lives of queer … | Edric Figueroa | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Elders |
In this chapter, the author examines the deaths of her two uncles from AIDS, and the stigma and shame that charactarized her family’s response to this tragedy. | Miranda Recht | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Family Business |
This chapter explores the author’s experience teaching an "Anthropology of HIV and AIDS course" at a Catholic University. | Kate Doyle Griffiths | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Taking the Guilt and Shame Out of Barebacking as a Sex Worker |
In this chapter, Lemoon discusses the impact of her bipolar disorder on her life as a sex worker, and how the public dialogue about safe sex needs to expand beyond exhortations to use condoms. | Laura Lemoon | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed |
This chapter details the author’s experiences growing up as a gay man in Eqypt, and his work with refugees and migrants who have been affected by HIV. | Ahmed Awadalla | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From Red Shadows |
In this chapter, the author explores her feelings for her mother, who died of AIDS when Mayer was 3 years old. | Lester Eugene Mayers | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From The Long Ladder of Shame |
In this chapter, the author suggests that people like her – a trans Chicana sex worker who is chronically homeless – are terrorized by America’s obsession with pathogenic medicine. | C.L. Severson | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From PrEP Will Not Save UsThe Ghosts of AIDS and Suicide |
This chapter explores suicide among gay men, which has surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death of gay men in Canada. | Kody Muncaster | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From Disclosure |
In this chapter, Birch explores the many meaning of "disclosure" among gay men. | Robert Birch | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From Half-Breed Blues |
This chapter explores the lingering effect of a date-rape on the author’s romantic and sexual life. | Charles Conn | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From Status Symbol |
This chapter explores St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, where the author has regular blood work. He writes that it inspires a sense of community, and it is where he feels safest from stigma. | Tony Correia | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
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From Undead DiscoVariations on a Theme |
In this chapter, the author discusses gay music, music claimed by gay people, and music that, sometimes retrospectively, narrates the gay experience. | Patrick Milian | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From Across the Gap between Us |
This chapter revolves around the author’s reading of Paul Monette’s Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir. | Liam October O'Brien | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
