Picture a Coalition

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4299895
AutoresGregg Bordowitz (autor de correspondencia)
Año1987
Volumen43
Páginas182
Fecha de publicación1987-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOctober (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3397573
OpenAlexW2331996263
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

As a twenty-three-year-old faggot, I get no affirmation from my culture. I see issues that affect my life-the issues raised by AIDS-being considered in ways that will probably end my life. For this reason I think that if there is to be a movement that will shift the discussion of AIDS away from the moralizing, punitive attitude that has characterized this country's policy, it will be built out of an emergent popular culture, one that affirms the lives of those affected. It will be a counterculture that will grow out of a broad-based mobilization to end the global epidemic. There are already moves to contain this growing activism. Threats of mass HIV antibody testing and quarantine are written in banner headlines. Certain individuals and groups have already been subject to such assaultswithin those institutions where surveillance is most easily enforced. This is not even to mention the discrimination people living with AIDS (PLWAs) have faced in all aspects of social life. The first targets of repression are, as always, the most disenfranchised. Thus, New York City's health commissioner Stephen Joseph has recently called for consideration of mandatory AIDS testing [sic] for prostitutes and sex and drug offenders, as well as a heavy crackdown on all forms of prostitution.' What purpose will enforced testing serve? Test results will establish much more than the extent to which a population has been exposed to a virus. Their

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