The reinvention of radical protest: life on the frontline of the Aids epidemic

[Ysabelle-S]

Warning: this is one of the Guardian's 'long read' articles, but since both ME and AIDS came to prominence during the 80s (though obviously there were notable outbreaks of the latter previously) I thought it relevant to post here. The LGBT community obviously included mostly healthy people who could also take part in activism, especially given the homophobia of the authorities at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/29/act-up-aids-new-york-spencer-cox

 

[Jennifer J]

This is an edited extract from How to Survive a Plague, published by Picador on 1 December. There will be a special screening on Thursday 1 December of David France’s film How to Survive a Plague at the Cinema Museum, London SE11, at 7pm; it will be introduced by Peter Staley.

I highly recommend watching the documentary How to Survive a Plague by David France, too.

 

[worldbackwards]

patients and their advocates puzzled through the science of virology, chemistry, and immunology. Their insights won them audiences with researchers in the deepest corridors of science – audiences, then respect, then working partnerships

Whereas ME patients' insights bring them scorn, slurs and accusations of terrorism. Maybe we're doing it wrong.