ABSTRACT
Organisations and activities that have arisen around HIV in the overdeveloped world are often presented as exemplars of new political forms. Accounts of these forms vary from Philip Kayal’s (1993) description of gay men’s health crisis as a gay politics reconstituted around healing; through images of the angry queer activism of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) as the emblem of a postmodern representational citizenship and ethics (Aronowitz 1995; Butler 1993; Crimp and Ralston 1990; Saalfield and Navarro 1991; Weeks 1995); to Michael Callen’s and the People with AIDS Coalition’s (Navarre 1988) picture of grass-roots self-representation and self-help transgressing social categories and intent on survival.
