April 8 - May 8, 2016, MacOdrum Library
This exhibition explores AIDS activists’ work to #eroticize safer sex practices in Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Eroticizing was a personal and political intervention. It was a way of refusing to see “sex-crazed, ‘promiscuous’, bath-going gay men” as a problem and refusing to push for monogamous “politically correct” relationships. It was a way of clearing space for ambiguities and contradictions as well as for fisting and fingering. It was a way of caring for oneself and others, for friends and fuck buddies, and for people living with HIV/ AIDS. Eroticizing safer sex, as this exhibition makes clear, was a personal, political and liberatory effort.
Curated by members of the AIDS Activist History Project.
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