title: "I Caught It at the Movies": Reflections on Medical History, Movie Theaters, and the Cinema of Contagion.
abstract: Undertaking an examination of the precarious places of the movies and movie theaters in queer lives in the 20th century, this article takes up a series of anecdotal episodes and feature-length films to consider how the space-related stakes of LGBT health have been best understood in literal cinema houses and the narrative cinema projections inside of them. The author argues for an appreciation of LGBT-themed motion pictures as oscillating between perpetuator of queer pathology and its potential solution.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA.
authors.forename: Lance
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wahlert
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures
keywords: AIDS; HIV; LGBT health; bioethics; cinema studies; epidemiology; history of medicine; homosexuality; queer cinema; sexology