Opting Out

Aging Gays, HIV/Aids and the Bio-Politics of Queer Viral Time

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ID3667055
AuthorsD A B Murray (0000-0002-2778-1877, York University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume69
Issue6
Pages967-984
Publication date2022-05-12
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00918369.2021.1901503
PMID33754961
OpenAlexW3137353381
LanguageEN
References cited14

This paper expands the scope of inquiry into HIV and aging through an ethnographic exploration of a small group of older, long-term (20 or more years) HIV+ gay white men in Toronto who meet fortnightly to discuss and reflect on everyday challenges of living with HIV but do not want to be affiliated with existing HIV/AIDS support organizations. Their discussions reveal a critique of professionalization and biomedical bias in contemporary mainstream Canadian HIV/AIDS discourses and support services, reflecting their shared experiences and memories of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Canada over many decades. I argue that their frustration with and disengagement from contemporary mainstream HIV/AIDS discourses and support services, based on shared experiences and memories, produces a particular form of "queer viral time," developed through the intersectional dynamics of epidemiological time, gender, age, race and sexual orientation. Queer viral time draws attention to the temporal dimensions of socio-sexual subject formations, social inequalities, and health governance

Disengagement theory · Ethnography · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Medicine · Gerontology

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