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Risky sex - risky language: HIV/AIDS and the West German gay scene in the 1980s

Riskanter Sex - riskante Sprache: HIV/AIDS und die westdeutsche Schwulenszene in den 1980ern
[Zeitschriftenartikel]

Haus, Sebastian

Abstract

This article focuses on the West German gay subculture and its early reactions to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It analyses how gay men coped with an uncertain epistemological situation in which the medical, social and political status of HIV/AIDS was far from being evident, and in which the ambivalent con... mehr

This article focuses on the West German gay subculture and its early reactions to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It analyses how gay men coped with an uncertain epistemological situation in which the medical, social and political status of HIV/AIDS was far from being evident, and in which the ambivalent connection of AIDS, risk and gay sexuality became the object of strong scientific and public interest. The article argues that gay men distinguished between two dimensions of AIDS risk: risky sex and risky language. On the one hand, they developed a strong awareness for the riskiness of their sexual behaviour, resulting in the will to consider AIDS as a disease of their own. On the other hand, they were irritated by the ambiguity of the public AIDS discourse. Its imagery went far beyond AIDS as a medical entity and was believed to conceal antigay politics behind medical facts. In analysing the emerging gay risk strategies, the article points out that gay activists and organisations critically adopted virological knowledge and promoted Safer Sex practices, both strategies which eventually empowered them to represent their interests within the emerging expert networks of AIDS politics since 1985/6. Central to these strategies was the attempt to disentangle a sphere of politics and morality from a sphere of the natural world of viruses, an attempt which was aimed at ending the supposed dangerous spread of antigay AIDS metaphors in the public. The article concludes in trying to interpret the HIV/AIDS controversies as reactions to the general epistemological uncertainties of “risk societies” in the late 20th century.... weniger

Thesaurusschlagwörter
Sexualität; Homosexualität; AIDS; Risikoverhalten; Risikogesellschaft; Diskurs; Massenmedien; Metapher; Gruppe; Aktivität; Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Familiensoziologie, Sexualsoziologie

Freie Schlagwörter
gay activism; safer sex; virology

Sprache Dokument
Englisch

Publikationsjahr
2016

Seitenangabe
S. 111-134

Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 1

Heftthema
Risk as an analytical category: selected studies in the social history of the twentieth century

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.1.111-134

ISSN
0172-6404

Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0


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