Bruce Brown interviewed by Martyn Goddard in July 1992 for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2150020
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Brown, Bruce, 1958?-1993, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 1992 July 7
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 163 min.)
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Bruce Brown, an AIDS activist and HIV positive man describes his background & education; awareness of AIDS as a disease; early information regarding safe sex practice; AIDS education; contagion fears; quarantine of hospital patients; discrimination; gay immigration to Australia; Sydney gay scene; decision not to take HIV test; deliberate HIV infection accusation; gay activism; testing HIV positive; AZT dosages & side effects; drug availability; ACT UP formation & demonstrations; government treatments access issue; Australian response to AIDS epidemic; fighting the system; anger; ACT UP action at National Conference on AIDS, Canberra; Brian Howe & health bureaucracy; reforms to drug evaluation system; ANCA Working Group Report into the availability of HIV/AIDS drugs (McDonald report); Canberra Manifesto; Baume Inquiry; D-Day campaign; phone tapping; ACT UP actions at Parliament House, Canberra.
- 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 in Sydney, N.S.W. on 7 July 1992.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 72 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- Brown, Bruce, 1958?-1993 -- Interviews
- ACT UP/Sydney (Organization)
- HIV-positive persons -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- AIDS activists -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Interviews
- HIV infections -- Treatment -- Government policy -- Australia
- HIV infections -- Social aspects
- AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects
- AZT (Drug)
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- Creation date:
- 1992
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