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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483488703321

Autore

Ware Cheryl

Titolo

HIV Survivors in Sydney : Memories of the Epidemic / / by Cheryl Ware

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030051013

9783030051020

3-030-05102-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Disciplina

306.7662

306.7662099441

Soggetti

Oral history

Islands of the Pacific—History

Social history

Gender identity

Medicine—History

Oral History

Australasian History

Social History

Gender and Sexuality

History of Medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. 'Our Lives Are Going to Change' -- 2. The Gay Capital of the Southern Hemisphere -- 3. The Face of HIV -- 4. 'The Disease of a Thousand Rehearsals' -- 5. Living by the Code of the Condom -- 6. Patient Stories -- 7. The Heroes of the Epidemic -- 8. Coping with Death -- 9. Life as Lazarus, 1996 -- 10. Bearing Witness to the Epidemic -- 11. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gay men moved from across Australasia to find liberation in the city’s vibrant community networks; and when HIV and AIDS devastated those networks, they grieved,



suffered, and survived in ways that have often been left out of the historical record. This book excavates the intimate lives and memories of HIV-positive gay men in Sydney, focusing on the critical years between 1982 and 1996, when HIV went from being a terrifying unidentified disease to a chronic condition that could be managed with antiretroviral medication. Using oral histories and archival research, Cheryl Ware offers a sensitive, moving exploration of how HIV-positive gay men navigated issues around disclosure, health, sex, grief, death, and survival. HIV Survivors in Sydney reveals how gay men dealt with the virus both within and outside of support networks, and how they remember these experiences nearly three decades later. .