title: Ojibwe lesbian visual AIDS: On the Red Road with Carole laFavor, Her Giveaway (1988), and Native LGBTQ2 film history.
abstract: After a century of suppression across the Silent, Classic, and New Hollywood eras, Native Lesbian/Gay media began to proliferate in the post-AIDS 1980s and into the second millennium. Her Giveaway: A Spiritual Journey with AIDS (1988) is a key tribal health AIDS video that exemplified a new contemporary media combination of visual, erotic, and theological sovereignty. The video's central Red Road narrative by the lesbian, Ojibwe, and AIDS/HIV+ spokesperson Carole laFavor emphasizes Native American traditional healing methods involving the medicine wheel and a reclamation of Native lesbian/gay identity.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Religious Studies , California State University Long Beach , Long Beach , California , USA.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Estrada
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000266:history; D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D018452:Homosexuality, Female / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology; D009040:Motion Pictures / Q000266:history*; D029181:Spirituality
keywords: HIV/AIDS; Native American; film history; gay/lesbian; medicine wheel