{"id":19844,"date":"2016-04-06T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=19844"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:23","slug":"positive-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2016\/positive-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"POSITIVE SEX: Eroticizing safer sex practices in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n POSITIVE SEX: Eroticizing safer sex practices in Canada in the 1980s and 1990s\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

April 8 – May 8, 2016, <\/strong>MacOdrum Library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This exhibition explores AIDS activists\u2019 work to #eroticize safer sex
\npractices in Canada in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Eroticizing was
\na personal and political intervention. It was a way of refusing to see
\n\u201csex-crazed, \u2018promiscuous\u2019, bath-going gay men\u201d as a problem and
\nrefusing to push for monogamous \u201cpolitically correct\u201d relationships.
\nIt was a way of clearing space for ambiguities and contradictions as
\nwell as for fisting and fingering. It was a way of caring for oneself and
\nothers, for friends and fuck buddies, and for people living with HIV\/
\nAIDS. Eroticizing safer sex, as this exhibition makes clear, was a
\npersonal, political and liberatory effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curated by members of the AIDS Activist History Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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