Aids
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Want to be strapped to a cute pilot as you jump out of a plane together?
Although Britain’s first AIDS case had been reported in The Lancet in 1981, it was the death of Terry Higgins in 1982 that brought the disease fully into public view. He was just 37. His friends used his death as a platform for further action and soon after set up Terrence Higgins Trust. Over the…
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Richard Willett talks about his novel A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S
When Canadian native RICHARD WILLETT emigrated to New York in the 1980s’ his ‘coming out’ took place against the AIDS pandemic, which made him (and all of us) take stock of life in general. So he channelled energy into writing his first (and only novel) A FRIEND OF DOROTHY’S about living through that time. Parts…
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Matt Nadel talks about CASHING OUT and how the practice changed the landscape for AIDS patients in the Pandemic
At the height of the AIDS crisis in the US, thousands of people were dying from the ravages of the disease, and also in sheer poverty … (AZT was the most expensive drug in the world!). Little could have been done to stop their terminal diagnoses, but there was a way to alleviate their financial…
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PLEASE HOLD : a Video by Alexandra Juhasz : how do mourning and memory change across time and tech for people with AIDS
This experimental video by Alexandra Juhasz does not make for easy viewing. Especially for those of us of a certain age who somehow survived the AIDS pandemic whilst our loved ones didnt. AIDS may have peaked some 30 years up until the arrival of protese inhibitors in 1996 which removed the automatic death sentence for…
