POSITIVE SEX: Eroticizing safer sex practices in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s
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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