AIDS awareness card: ACT UP, 1993
<p>Trading cards are a popular form of entertainment, but are also used to educate a segment of the population that may not be reached through more traditional methods. This set of 110 trading cards designed for young adults depicts personalities who died from AIDS or were involved in the fight against AIDS, as well as a variety of HIV and AIDS-related topics.</p>
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<p>“It took someone like me to stand up against the entire gay and AIDS establishment and scream at them in 1987, where is your anger?”</p>
<p><strong>Interview with Bill Bahlman, Act Up, 1995<br /></strong> <em>John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection, 1901-2008</em></p>
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AIDS awareness cards, 1993
<p>Trading cards are a popular form of entertainment, but are also used to educate a segment of the population that may not be reached through more traditional methods. This set of 110 trading cards designed for young adults depicts personalities who died from AIDS or were involved in the fight against AIDS, as well as a variety of HIV and AIDS-related topics.</p>
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection
AIDS Awareness card: Ryan White, 1993
<p>Ryan White was born in Kokomo, IN, in 1971, with the genetic blood disease hemophilia. In 1985, he was diagnosed with AIDS after being infected through treatment with contaminated blood products. When his condition became known, he was ostracized: he was taunted at school and then expelled, and a bullet was fired into his family’s home. Fleeing Kokomo, the family moved to nearby Cicero, IN, where they were welcomed and Ryan attended school for the rest of his short life. Ryan became a vocal and visible symbol of AIDS. The Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act of 1990 was named for him. He died of AIDS in 1990.</p>
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection
Specialty advertisements, circa 1995-2009
<p>Specialty advertisements about HIV and AIDS are used for everything from promoting HIV testing and supporting organizations for HIV positive individuals, to providing non-English speaking communities with AIDS prevention methods and information. These advertisements are distributed freely at gay pride events, health clinics, bookstores, bars, and other venues.</p>
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<p>“Unfortunately, AIDS has settled in and is going to be here for a long time and it’s become ‘business as usual’ for some people. It is a career for some people. But for most of us I think it’s still a cause, and it gives us that super ordinate reason to get to work, and get around the BS and make some differences now.”</p>
<p><strong>Interview with Bruce Patterson, Gay Men’s Health Clinic, 1995<br /></strong><em>John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection, 1901-2008</em></p>
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<p>“I think the African American community for the most part kind of wishes the whole gay issue would go away because it has the potential for creating such an explosive debate that people are afraid of the splintering that might take place as a result.</p>
<p>I think that is unfortunate because at the end of the debate would be a healthier community.”</p>
<p><strong>Interview with Robert Washington, psychologist, 1995<br /></strong><em>John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection, 1901-2008</em></p>
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection
<em>RFD Magazine</em>, Summer 1987
<p>As the epidemic wore on, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) press devoted significant space to AIDS prevention, health, and end of life issues. The subject of being HIV positive while not having full-blown AIDS also became a topic for writers. <em>RFD Magazine</em> was one of the many LGBT publications that regularly ran HIV and AIDS related articles.</p>
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Collection
Helen Compton, owner of the Shamrock Bar, 1999
<p>“CAROL: So, how did you first hear about AIDS? How did if first happen, when people first started talking about it?</p>
<p>HELEN: When they first started talking about it, it scared the hell out of me, . . . .</p>
<p>CAROL: Do you remember the first person who came into the bar talking about it?</p>
<p>HELEN: Doug Patterson(?). He’s in Georgetown now. He has AIDS. There’s been several of them that has died with it.”</p>
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<p>“LARRY: . . . the whole AIDS epidemic passed her by. . . . She did not want condoms in the bar. We tried. The health agencies tried to get her to put condoms in the bar. The health department came in there wanting to set up to do blood tests in the bar for the gay community. At no charge. She wouldn’t allow it. Charles [from a local AIDS organization] has been there several times for organizations and she wouldn’t allow it.”</p>
<p><strong>Interview with “Larry,” bartender at The Shamrock Bar, 1999<br /></strong><em>The Shamrock Bar: Photographs and Interviews, 1997-2003</em></p>
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<p>“. . . lesbians got involved in AIDS organizations in part because as political women we could see the reality of what was going on to gay men and what implications of that were for the gay movement.”</p>
<p><strong>Interview with Urvashi Vaid, member of the Gay Community News (GCN) Collective, 1995<br /></strong><em>John-Manuel Andriote Victory Deferred Collection, 1901-2008</em></p>
The Shamrock Bar: Photographs and Interviews, 1997-2003