Journal of the History of Sexuality

Congratulations Somak! Thank you again for all your work on this issue!

A brilliant new special issue on transnational HIV/AIDS activism has been published in @jhistsex.bsky.social co-edited by the dream team of @npapadogian.bsky.social and @somakbiswas.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/55146

My contribution examines transnational US-Soviet AIDS activism (cont. below)

On this National HIV Testing Day, I’m giving away up to four copies of my @uncpress.bsky.social book THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. To claim your copy, please just donate to an HIV/AIDS-related cause of your choosing (preferably a local HIV/AIDS service organization) and send me the receipt. 🗃️

Thank you again to our editors. Happy reading!

In “HIV/AIDS Campaigns and Queer Activism in Athens and Their Transnational Context, ca. 1985–ca. 1997,” @npapadogian.bsky.social‬ considers how cross-border transfers of ideas influenced queer activists engaged in HIV campaigns in Athens in the 1980s and 1990s

Maja Lukanc’s article, “AIDS-Related Gay Activism in Socialist Slovenia and Its Transnational Context, 1984–1991,” explores how grassroots gay activists played a pivotal role in disseminating critical information to reduce HIV transmission within the gay community by drawing on cross-border ideas

In “Life in Translation: Activist Communities, Gay Media, and the Counterdiscourses of HIV and AIDS in Italy, 1983–1993,” Rachel E. Love shows how Italian journalists, activists, and people with HIV-AIDS mobilized transnational connections to distribute knowledge to their own communities

@tortietabby.bsky.social's “Positively Irish Action on AIDS (PIAA): HIV and AIDS Activism and the Irish Diaspora in London, ca. 1989–1996” considers PIAA activists and Irish people affected by HIV-AIDS, centering the role of emotions, religion, and Irish identity in fostering emotional communities.

In “Transnational HIV-AIDS Action and Citizen Diplomacy in the Late Soviet Union, 1988–1991,” @siobhanhearne.bsky.social highlights how grassroots HIV-AIDS action provided Soviet citizens with opportunities for transnational exchange and collaboration

‪In “Sexual and Postcolonial Minorities in 1990s France: An Impossible “Convergence of Struggles” Against AIDS?” @chrisbroqua.bsky.social considers how cross-border flows of ideas mediated the relationship between Act-Up Paris and Migrants Against AIDS in France

In “HIV/AIDS and the Naz Project: Race, Sexuality, and South Asian AIDS Activism in Britain, 1990–2000,” Biswas explores how the rhetoric/practice of the NAZ project addressed intersections of race/mobility embodied by people of South Asian, North African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American descent.

The introduction, titled “Transnational Histories of HIV/AIDS Collective Action in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s,” describes the importance of rethinking HIV/AIDS within histories of cross-border activism across Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, Central Eastern Europe, and South Asia.

Check out our newest issue of JHS, titled “Transnational Histories of collective Action on HIV/AIDS in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s,” and guest edited by Somak Biswas and @npapadogian.bsky.social
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