David Plummer interviewed by Stewart Harris for the Australian response to AIDS oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 648600
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Plummer, David, 1957-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 1992 Sept. 15-17
- 9 tape reels (ca. 278 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Australian response to AIDS oral history project.
- Summary:
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Tapes 1-3. Plummer, a specialist in sexual health, comments on a series of slides illustrating the history of sexually transmitted diseases and homosexuality, from early atitudes to syphilis, through pathologicalisation of homosexuality, to contemporary AIDS posters and slogans. Tapes 4-9. Plummer discusses his first awareness of AIDS as a disease; response of medical profession; early HIV testing; Sydney/Melbourne response to the disease; Victorian AIDS Council; ANZAAS AIDS information session; Gay Men's Community Health Centre; AIDS delegation to Africa, 1986/87; non-reappointment to his research position; gay power & AIDS movement; HIV hospital discrimination; Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations; AIDS in Australia book; Venereology journal; press liaison; Sexually Speaking radio program; venereology courses; AFAO resignation; family background; gay politics; children & homosexual relationships; Australian AIDS campaign; Blewett; bureaucratisation of AIDS; Aust. influence on international AIDS approach; outing; the term 'gay'; AIDS disclosure; heterosexual involvement in gay community; and comments on the contributions of other individuals in the Australian response to AIDS.
- 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. between 15 and 17 September 1992.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected transcript (typescript, 97 leaves) available.
- Subject:
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- Plummer, David, 1957- -- Interviews
- Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations
- Physicians -- Australia -- Interviews
- Sexually transmitted diseases in art -- History
- AIDS (Disease) -- Australia -- Prevention
- AIDS (Disease) -- Government policy -- Australia
- AIDS (Disease) -- Political aspects
- HIV infections -- Victoria
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