WOMENST 3BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, Names Project Aids Memorial Quilt, Vito Russo
6 Sep 2018
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Much of how we know aids comes from how it was represented in media, government, medicine. Victims of aids depicted as either guilty (mostly gay people) or innocent victims (people who contracted it via blood transfusions) Initially called gay related immune deficiency (grid) in 1981. First anti-hiv drug not developed and approved until 1987. Deaths began to plateau and decrease in late 90s, became conceived as more of an. Vito russo - why we fight speech. Blames government and press for aids epidemic. Most ads targeted at supposedly not at risk populations - viewer was assumed to be white, heterosexual. People who were affected were not being consulted. It"s not affecting the general population, so no one cares. Social stigma - increased violence, threats of quarantine. Us immigration bans visitors or immigrants who are hiv+ President ronald reagan - took him 6 years to publicly say word aids .
