Participants engaged in a far-ranging conversation that interweaves histories of sexuality, race, gender, medicine, social activism, and media, and explores how HIV/ AIDS has been addressed, and ignored, in historical scholarship of the late twentieth century. Working with Jennifer Brier, the JAH brought together nine scholars to discuss how the history of HIV/ AIDS intersects with the history of the United States. But despite those radical changes, HIV/ AIDS has rarely been included in the history of the post-1960s era. The epidemic, and those affected by it, transformed public discussion of sexuality and race, poverty, and public health. In this “Interchange,” the writers focus primarily on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer ( LGBTQ) communities and communities of color, groups that make up the majority of people living with human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) in the United States, as a way to explore social, cultural, and political battles over recognizing the significance of AIDS and for access to treatment and prevention. Emerging in the 1980s, acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS) ravaged minoritized communities across the country and in the process transformed the United States.
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