Abstract
This chapter engages the centrality of AIDS in the history of queerness. The emergence of AIDS parallels the development of queer theory. Queer theory, born at the crossroads of street and academic activism, had a stake in articulating queer survival. This history is slowly being lost in the ongoing process of normalization and gentrification. Yet, in the 2010s, Greteman illustrates that there has been a growth in attention to the history of AIDS, particularly via documentaries that have emerged to document and revive the voices of our recent, but dead past. Drawing on the pedagogical force of documentaries to transmit histories, this chapter argues for the centrality of AIDS in becoming queer.
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Notes
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The interview was conducted and published in 2004; the text I refer to was part of Rofes’s posthumously published collection Thriving: Gay Men’s Health in the 21st Century.
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As reported by Samantha Schmidt (2017), in the summer of 2017, Ruthie Robertson, an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University, was fired after refusing to remove a Facebook post expressing support for LGBT issues. In the post, Robertson wrote, “This is my official announcement and declaration that I believe heterosexuality and homosexuality are both natural and neither is sinful.”
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Greteman, A.J. (2018). Queer Pedagogy and Documenting AIDS. In: Sexualities and Genders in Education. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71129-4_5
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