ABSTRACT

Presents a chronological selection of Watney's writings from the 1990s, with new contextualising introductory and concluding essays and offers a chronicle of the changing and often confusing course of the epidemic.

chapter |26 pages

Introduction

‘Epidemic! What epidemic?’

chapter 1|8 pages

Ordinary boys*

chapter 2|2 pages

Vito Russo: 1946–90*

chapter 3|13 pages

School’s out*

chapter 5|18 pages

Emergent sexual identities and HIV/AIDS*

chapter 6|6 pages

The killing fields of Europe*

chapter 7|2 pages

Charles Barber: 1956–92

chapter 8|17 pages

Read my lips: AIDS, art & activism*

chapter 9|3 pages

How to have sax in an epidemic*

chapter 10|5 pages

Hard won credibility*

chapter 11|2 pages

Michael Callen: 1955–93*

chapter 12|1 pages

Dr Simon Mansfield: 1960–93

chapter 13|16 pages

AIDS and the politics of queer diaspora*

chapter 14|3 pages

Derek Jarman 1942–94: a political death*

chapter 15|12 pages

Numbers and nightmares: HIV/AIDS in Britain*

chapter 18|6 pages

Acts of memory*

chapter 20|3 pages

Concorde*

chapter 21|5 pages

AIDS awareness?*

chapter 25|3 pages

GLF: 25 years on*

chapter 28|15 pages

Lesbian and gay studies in the age of AIDS*

chapter 29|16 pages

Imagine hope: AIDS and gay identity