Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sub-Saharan Africa, Hiv, Antifeminism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1021F/G
• Professor: Christine Roulston

Document Summary

Critical transformations: aids and the work of memorialization. Summary of lecture: background to aids, 1960s civil rights, 1970s-80s gay and lesbian cultures, 1980s sex wars, 1980s aids in the west, aids as global disease, act up, aids memorial quilt, rebecca brown, gifts of the body. June 28th, 1969, police raided the stonewall inn, a gay bar in greenwich. > poli(cid:272)e said the (cid:396)aids (cid:449)e(cid:396)e a(cid:271)out (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)olli(cid:374)g al(cid:272)ohol, et(cid:272). (cid:863) (cid:271)ut it (cid:449)as just a way of harassing the lgbt community. In public women had to wear 3 pieces of clothing, and since bars are public they would enforce that rule, an attempt to keep women from dressing like men. > those in the bar barricaded the bar. The community fighting back against the police, it made the papers in new york. A big step for the minority community always getting harassed. Landmark even for begging of gay and lesbian political activism.