What kinds of historical narratives\u00a0might\u00a0you be able to tell, based on the materials in this collection? What would be missing from your narrative, if you based it entirely on records in this collection? What kinds of sources would you need to find to address those gaps?<\/p>\n
Finding aid to the ACT UP\/Los Angeles Records Coll2011-010<\/p>\n
The material included in Finding aid to the ACT UP\/Los Angeles Records Coll2011-010 Provides insight to the first political movements during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. It outlines the strong efforts made by ACT UP to help those affected by AIDS in the New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles areas. What is missing from the narrative is the oppressive culture of the early eighties which sparked the political movement. AIDS carried a negative stigma which was associated with \u2018a perverse lifestyle held by the gay community\u2019. This stigma crippled the development of AIDS offered assistance and left a growing number of people vulnerable to the disease. A stigma that falsely labeled AIDS as the gay disease that only affected homosexuals. The stigma that manifested hostility towards the gay community and left everyone else ignorant and without the proper knowledge of the disease they remained at risk of contracting it.
\nSources which would serve in filling the gaps would be early medical journals on AIDS to reflect the early ignorance on the subject. In addition to current medical journals to explain how the disease became so promenade in the gay community. A community which priory did not have use for. Individual stories pertaining to social conditions would also be useful in addressing the gaps of the narrative. While the archive outlines the political movements corresponding to the medical system, it fails to address the social struggles. The intersecting factors of systemic and cultural discrimination the community had to fight against in an effort to survive the disease.
\nI would also include literature written during this struggle. The poems and novels that attempted to form a narrative around the epidemic. Many poems do an amazing job at undoing the barriers which were formed around the AIDS epidemic. They portray AIDS as a disease and not a force that targets \u2018people who live a certain lifestyle\u2019. The individual narratives help do away with the negative stigma by allowing people to associate with them and understand that people being affected were just like everyone else. These people deserved to be properly cared for by their government and casted away like a leopard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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