SOC309Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rock Hudson, Tabula Rasa, Antiviral Drug
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Emergence of aids as first illness in neoliberal society. Pillars with plaques goes by year names of people who died. Died from skin cancer and pcp everyone has pcp but if you have a good immune system it does not make you sick. Aids was a blank slate in early years everyone projected own ideas onto it (ex. infectious, environmental, religious, health) Projection was easy due to officials indifference. Nobody really cared about the group of people affected by aids. In february 1981 the police raided all the gay baths in toronto. In these days, most people were in the closet. 300 people arrested, seen as a huge assault on community. This was a way for people to comfortably meet other gays. By 1983, most of these people had their cases won in course. Realized it was a virus in blood supply. 1986 the memorial had whole pillars of deaths.
