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To Make the Wounded Whole
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has
devastated African American communities. Members of those
communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences
from the beginning of the AIDS activist movement. They struggled
not only to overcome the stigma and denial surrounding a \"white gay
disease\" in Black America, but also to bring resources to
struggling communities that were often dismissed as too \"hard to
reach.\" To Make the Wounded Whole offers the first history
of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth.
Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists,
including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church
pastors, Nation of Islam leaders, recovering drug users, and Black
feminists who pursued a wide array of grassroots approaches to slow
the epidemic's spread and address its impacts. Through interlinked
stories from Philadelphia and Atlanta to South Africa and back
again, Royles documents the diverse, creative, and global work of
African American activists in the decades-long battle against
HIV/AIDS.
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Companeros
Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists and volunteers living in Chicago and San Francisco, Compañeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS closely details how these individuals have been touched or transformed by the AIDS epidemic. _x000B__x000B_Weaving together activists' responses to oppression and stigma, their encounters with AIDS, and their experiences as GBTs and Latinos in North America and Latin America, Jesus Ramirez-Valles explores the intersection of civic involvement with ethnic and sexual identity. Even as activists battle multiple sources of oppression, they are able to restore their sense of family connection and self-esteem through the creation of an alternative space in which community members find value in their relationships with one another. In demonstrating the transformative effects of a nurturing community environment for GBT Latinos affected by the AIDS epidemic, Ramirez-Valles illustrates that members find support in one another, as compañeros, in their struggles with homophobia, gender discrimination, racism, poverty, and forced migration.
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Love Your Asian Body
Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American Studies Defying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movement The AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status. A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those early years of the epidemic, these activists became caregivers, social workers, nurses, researchers, and advocates for those living with HIV. And for many, the AIDS epidemic sparked the beginning of their continued work to build multiracial coalitions and confront broader systemic inequities. Detailing the intertwined realities of race and sexuality in AIDS activism, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.
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Movement, Knowledge, Emotion
This book is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. It looks at the role that the gay community played in the social, medical and political response to the virus. Drawing conclusions about the cultural impact of social movements, the author argues that AIDS activism contributed to improving social attitudes towards gay men and lesbians in Australia, while also challenging some entrenched cultural patterns of the Australian medical system, allowing greater scope for non-medical intervention into the domain of health and illness. The book documents an important chapter in the history of public health in Australia and explores how HIV/AIDS came to be a defining issue in the history of gay and lesbian rights in Australia.
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Implementation science and the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s work towards ending the HIV epidemic in the United States
Introduction Implementation science has emerged as an essential field for HIV treatment and prevention, providing crucial insights for clinical effectiveness and efficacy trials, bench-to-bedside translation of clinical trial evidence into real-world intervention strategies, and routine program monitoring and evaluation [1,2,3,4,5]. Funded at $2.3 billion in 2019, with more than 2,000 providers across the US, the RWHAP delivers a comprehensive system of high-quality HIV care and treatment, including direct medical care and support services for more than half a million people with HIV—more than 50% of all people living with diagnosed HIV in the US [9]. Since 1990, the RHWAP has played a pivotal role in supporting state and county health departments as well as faith- and community-based organizations to implement effective intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of people with HIV. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), when taken daily, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV infection [17]. Trying to rigorously account for the messiness of the real world, however, can require elaborate, resource-intensive evaluation frameworks that are hard to replicate. [...]studies that are highly tailored to, and therefore relevant for, a specific context may have reduced external validity, hindering the production of generalizable knowledge that could support broader implementation [7].
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A Pill for Promiscuity
2024 Best Book of the Year Award by the GLBTQ Division of the National Communication Association
Finalist for Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology
For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and preventative pills such as PrEP and nPEP has massively reduced the risk of acquiring HIV. Yet some of the stigma around gay male promiscuity and bareback sex has remained, inhibiting open dialogues about sexual desire, risk, and pleasure.
A Pill for Promiscuity brings together academics, artists, and activists—from different generations, countries, ethnic backgrounds, and HIV statuses—to reflect on how gay sex has changed in a post-PrEP era. Some offer personal perspectives on the value of promiscuity and the sexual communities it fosters, while others critique unequal access to PrEP and the increased role Big Pharma now plays in gay life. With a diverse group of contributors that includes novelist Andrew Holleran, trans scholar Lore/tta LeMaster, cartoonist Steve MacIsaac, and pornographic film director Mister Pam, this book asks provocative questions about how we might reimagine queer sex and sexuality in the 21st century.
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Love Your Asian Body
Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in History Award for 2023, presented by the Association for Asian American StudiesDefying the AIDS epidemic, Asian American activists sparked a sex-affirming movementThe AIDS crisis reshaped life in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s and radicalized a new generation of queer Asian Americans with a broad vision of health equity and sexual freedom. Even amid the fear and grief, Asian American AIDS activists created an infrastructure of care that centered the most stigmatized and provided diverse immigrant communities with the health resources and information they needed. Without a formal blueprint, these young organizers often had to be creative and agitational, and together they reclaimed the pleasure in sex and fostered inclusivity, regardless of HIV status.A community memoir, Love Your Asian Body connects the deeply personal with the uncompromisingly political in telling the stories of more than thirty Asian American AIDS activists. In those early years of the epidemic, these activists became caregivers, social workers, nurses, researchers, and advocates for those living with HIV. And for many, the AIDS epidemic sparked the beginning of their continued work to build multiracial coalitions and confront broader systemic inequities. Detailing the intertwined realities of race and sexuality in AIDS activism, Love Your Asian Body offers a vital portrait of a movement founded on joy.
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