Overview
- Offers the first book-length account on how HIV and AIDS transformed the intimate lives of gay men in Sydney
- Moves beyond the usual focus on public mobilization and activism in the history of HIV and AIDS to foreground the stories of individual men and the impact of the disease on their personal lives
- Features oral histories of gay men diagnosed with HIV in Sydney before the advent of antiretroviral medication
- Appeals to scholars and readers interested in the history of sexuality, LGBTQ studies, oral history, memory studies, the history of medicine, the history of HIV and AIDS, and Australian history
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History (PSOH)
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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.
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Keywords
- Gay liberation movement
- History of HIV and AIDS
- HIV and AIDS activism
- Oral history theory
- Inner-city Sydney
- HIV and AIDS in Australia
- LGBT history in Australia
- HIV and AIDS survivors
- Sydney's gay community
- HAART
- antiretroviral medication
- trauma
- life story interviews
- HIV status disclosure
- safe sex
- gender and sexuality
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Cheryl Ware is a Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: HIV Survivors in Sydney
Book Subtitle: Memories of the Epidemic
Authors: Cheryl Ware
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05102-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05101-3Published: 30 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05102-0Published: 12 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-5673
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 247
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Oral History, Australasian History, Social History, Gender and Sexuality, History of Medicine