AIDS PORN

[tiny_tove]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/t-magazine/aids-epidemic-deaths-new-york.html

So this is where Silvester has gone

[tiny_tove]

https://www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com/aids/

http://pinstake.com/david-kirby-dying-of-aids-in-benetton-pieta-print-ad/

[Andrew McIntosh]

https://www.rosalindfoxsolomon.com/aids/

Excuse me from diverting from the topic so soon, but that Sontag quote is great.

[david lloyd jones]

Bugchaser

[abusepotential]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/t-magazine/aids-epidemic-deaths-new-york.html

So this is where Silvester has gone

Pretty hard to resist the title of this thread.

Contrary to what was believed for many years, HIV was not brought to the USA from Africa by a gay airline steward. It was brought from Africa to the Carribean by black immigrants, then spread to the black Carribean population of NYC -- where it languised for many years due to the relatively traditional sexual beliefs and practices within that population.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19827

When HIV jumped from the Carribean population to the gay male population in NYC, suddenly it was an epidemic. Why? The prevalence of anal sex, with its higher chance of causing small bleeding wounds, is my guess.

This disease, so often portrayed in media as something caught seemingly at random, is certainly linked with hedonism in my view.
It's true that some people did get it from blood transfusions. At least one girl got it from her dentist, I guess.

This cartoon was intended for indigenous Australian communities. "You don't have to be a queenie..."
http://i.imgur.com/U0WGOXK.jpg

[THE RITA HN]

I've seen a few documentaries on the controversial Polio vaccine theory:

http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/AIDS/Curtis92.html

[Peterson]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/17/t-magazine/aids-epidemic-deaths-new-york.html

So this is where Silvester has gone

Contrary to what was believed for many years, HIV was not brought to the USA from Africa by a gay airline steward.

I think most people know the Gaeten Dugas story is an urban legend, but I beleive his story is basically just an exaggeration of his pretty flagrant carelessness. He blew his story up for Randy Schilts in And The Band Played On because he was dying and knew the notoriety would be a good story, and Schilts blew it up even further. What's interesting is Schilts himself died of AIDS shortly thereafter. I think that book would qualify in the context of this thread. Maybe even an influence on me and my writing to some extent.

[THE RITA HN]

My boss from the foreign film store / office i worked in was at the premiere of THE GIFT in SF.
The protests, near riot it almost started, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN4w8e432_o

[THE RITA HN]

The ongoing HIV vs. AIDS controversy has many documentaries as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrYDoOIufg

[Strangecross]

The ongoing HIV vs. AIDS controversy has many documentaries as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrYDoOIufg

Thanks Sam, Very interesting, reminds me of my experience with Hepatitus that turned out to be completely false!!

[tiny_tove]

My boss from the foreign film store / office i worked in was at the premiere of THE GIFT in SF.
The protests, near riot it almost started, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN4w8e432_o

I did some artwork form Andrea Venanzoni's article for Blue Magazine.
Devastating documentary... There was an equally intense article on Guardian magazine saying the British side of that.

[tiny_tove]

The ongoing HIV vs. AIDS controversy has many documentaries as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCrYDoOIufg

great thanks

[tisbor]

This thread is full of great titles for harsh noise tracks