title: "Requestioning" AIDS: An Ethical Reflection From 1993 to Today. Reflections on Claude Vandevyer's "Homosexuals and AIDS: A New Approach to the Illness" from Journal of Homosexuality 25(3).
abstract: This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines the first feature-length article to address the relationship between HIV status and homosexuality. Lingering on both the temporal gap between the dawn of AIDS in American discourse and its inclusion in this journal, the author asks us to consider (in hindsight) such a delay bearing in mind queer theoretical projects of the present such as gay shame, stigma, and queer biopolitics.
authors.affiliation: a Department of English , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
authors.forename: Travis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lau
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior
keywords: AIDS; HIV exposure; LGBT health; LGBT politics; PrEP; bareback sex; bioethics; gay shame; history of medicine; homosexuality; human sexuality