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Cynthia Slater (August 7, 1945 – October 26, 1989) was an American sex educator, HIV/AIDS activist, and dominatrix. She was the co-founder of the second BDSM organization founded in the United States (after The Eulenspiegel Society), [1] a San Francisco, California based BDSM education and support group known as the Society of Janus, which she founded with Larry Olsen in August 1974.
A demonstrator waves a placard using the "Silence=Death" slogan during a 2017 event in New York City.Activist groups focused on HIV/AIDS in the United States initially drew their numbers from the bisexual, lesbian, and male homosexual communities as a whole, with socio-political campaigns including culturally active patients who were struggling with their healthcare themselves.
The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.
The late Joan Rivers is known as a pioneering woman in comedy, but she was also a pioneer in AIDS activism. The comedian was one of the first celebrities to lend her fame to the fight against AIDS ...
American AIDS activist, worked with ACT UP in the 1980s and 1990s, now codirector of the Global Health Justice Partnership at Yale. [73] Jahnabi Goswami (born 1976) Indian AIDS activist and first woman in the Northeast to declare her HIV status. [74] Eve van Grafhorst (1982–1993) Australian-born New Zealand AIDS campaigner.
The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must ...
McCaskell became aware of AIDS through reading the US news. [14] Although he was not formally diagnosed until testing became available in 1986, he suspected he had HIV as early as 1981. [15] [3] Since the late 1980s, McCaskell has been involved in HIV/AIDS activism, particularly with AIDS Action Now! (AAN), which he co-founded.