Abstract:

This essay examines queer responses to the first wave of the HIV/AIDS epidemic alongside public health practices at a recent ASTR conference held during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors focus especially on the period between the identification of the HIV virus in 1983 and the first availability of protease inhibitors in 1996. Within this period, queer practices of care in the face of government neglect engaged with performance, and in retrospect were themselves a form of performance theory that literalized performance studies' fixation on liveness and mortality. As the authors revisit archives, including public health videos, memoirs, congressional hearings, and queer criticism from the 1980s and '90s, they reconsider the work of Cindy Patton, David Román, Douglas Crimp, Eric Michaels, Gary Fisher, Herbert Blau, and Reza Abdoh in the elaboration of performance as vital to the collective project of public health.

摘要：

这篇文章探讨了在 COVID-19 大流行期间举行的最近一次 ASTR 会议上，酷儿对第一波 HIV/AIDS 流行病的反应以及公共卫生实践。作者特别关注从 1983 年发现 HIV 病毒到 1996 年首次使用蛋白酶抑制剂之间的时期。在此期间，面对政府忽视的酷儿护理实践与表现有关，回想起来，它们本身就是一个性能理论的一种形式，将性能研究对活跃度和死亡率的固定化。当作者重新审视档案，包括 1980 年代和 90 年代的公共卫生视频、回忆录、国会听证会和酷儿批评时，他们重新考虑了 Cindy Patton、David Román、Douglas Crimp、Eric Michaels、Gary Fisher、Herbert Blau、