Reframing HIV/AIDS in the Fourth Decade

Roger HallasSyracuse University, USA

rhallas@syr.edu

No Regret (Marlon Riggs, 1992)

Voices from the Front (Testing the Limits, 1992)

Silverlake Life: The View From Heree (Tom Joslin & Peter Friedman, 1993)

Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993)

1.

Don’t just criticize problematic representation, appropriate and remake it.

Bright Eyes (Stuart Marshall, 1984)

The New York Crimes (Gran Fury, 1989)

Fast Trip, Long Drop(Gregg Bordowitz, 1993)

The Gift (Louise Hogarth, 2003)

“None of us chose this virus and these people are choosing it.”

Kenboy: “Give me the gift. I am a bug chaser. I want to get the bug this weekend. And no, I am not afraid of AIDS.”

HIV IS NO PICNIC campaign(Stop AIDS Project, San Francisco, 2002)

HIV (NOT FABULOUS) campaign(AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Los Angeles, 2006)

IT’S NEVER JUST HIV campaign(New York City Department of Health, 2010)

2.

Generate representational tactics at the grassroots level.

PISD (People with Immune System Disorders) affinity groupSixth International AIDS Conference, San Francisco, June 1990

3.

Political activism provides an integral opportunity for HIV prevention and health education.

HIV Criminalization Face-Off: A Poz Man and His Accuser(Mark S. King’s My Fabulous Disease blog)

4.

Sustaining cultural memory is a vital component to the larger cultural context of community health

education.