A freelance AIDS consultant and HIV positive man interviewed by James Waites for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 627519
- Format:
- Audio
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- 1992 Nov. 24
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 56 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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The interviewee describes his childhood and family background; teenage sexuality and school difficulties; first contact with homosexual men; introduction to Melbourne gay culture; alcohol problem; family support; Sydney gay scene; first awareness of AIDS as a disease; becoming involved in gay politics; reaction to his own HIV positive diagnosis; involvement in AIDS services; employment at gay community venues; voluntary work; coping with sadness; AIDS hysteria; AIDS testing; problems with Australian response to AIDS epidemic; discrimination; living with an HIV positive diagnosis; natural therapies & lack of cure; gay relationships; isolation experienced by people living with HIV; changes observed in AIDS epidemic, 1980s-1990s; deterioration in his health; AIDS activism; effect of disease & deaths on gay community; lack of time for grieving process.
- Notes:
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- Part of a project undertaken jointly by the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations and the National Library of Australia focussing on the social and political response in Australia to AIDS.
- Recorded at the Darling Harbour Convention Centre, Sydney, N.S.W. on 24 November 1992.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 31 leaves)
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This belongs to the Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
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