HIV Survivors in Sydney Memories of the Epidemic /

• Main Author: Ware, Cheryl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
• Subjects: Oral history.; Islands of the Pacific-History.; Social history.; Gender identity.; Medicine-History.; Oral History.; Australasian History.; Social History.; Gender and Sexuality.; History of Medicine.

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 wa...

Table of Contents:

• 1. 'Our Lives Are Going to Change'
• 2. The Gay Capital of the Southern Hemisphere
• 3. The Face of HIV
• 4. 'The Disease of a Thousand Rehearsals'
• 5. Living by the Code of the Condom
• 6. Patient Stories
• 7. The Heroes of the Epidemic
• 8. Coping with Death
• 9. Life as Lazarus, 1996
• 10. Bearing Witness to the Epidemic
• 11. Conclusion.