ABSTRACT
Hunter Hargraves considers the representation of AIDS history in the crowdfunded web series The Father Project. Financed by donations from audiences and distributed via non-traditional means, The Fathers Project imagines a future where the AIDS Crisis of the 1980s and 1990s did not happen because its challenges were met by a fictive separatist colony comprised of queer communities steeped in the practices of gay male sexual subcultures. Hargraves considers how a narrative world focused on sexual practice and predicated on a historical fantasy is enabled by The Fathers Project’s alternative modes of financing and distribution.
