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Transgendered persons, and gay and bisexual men.Īnother tension among Brazilian AIDS educators andĪctivists has centered around how to develop sex-positive, Grams toward specific social groups such as women, Tional funders, many organizations began to target pro. Tially in response to the shifting priorities of interna. In the late 1980s and earlyġ990s, most educational materials were directed toward Tion programs might best address specific questionsĪround gender and sexuality. VOL XXXI, No 4 JAN/FEB 1998 27REPORT ON SEXUAL POLITICS There has been consid-Įrably less agreement, however, as to how HIV preven. Gender/sexual equality and working against sexual dou-īle standards and homophobia. Is also a generalized political discourse that emphasizes One of the best ways to reduce the spread of HIV. Over the years, most Brazilian AIDS activists have been united by a belief that frank, accessi- ble and sex-positive information about HIV transmission (as opposed to promoting abstinence) is These experiences have made it quite clear that AIDS prevention is not solely about behavior modifica- tion, but is also a project that requires a critical under- standing of-and perhaps substantial changes within- Brazilian sexuality and sexual politics. Work groups and other activities originally developed by AIDS organizations to promote AIDS prevention have emerged as important sites for ongoing discussion and debate on a wide range of issues, ranging from sex- ual identity and violence to the various ways in which HIV and AIDS relate to gender and sexual hierarchies in Brazil. This incipient organizing around the issue of AIDS has been a crucial catalyst to gay activism in Brazil. Of AIDS activism and AIDS prevention grew quickly, and by 1994 there were more than 500 AIDS NGOs throughout the country. His dissertation, AIDS, Activism and the Social Imagination in Brazil, received the Horace R. Increasingly available to local groups, the NGO modelĬharles Klein is visiting professor of anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. Paigns, NGOs became the most important AIDS educa. Initially produce HIV/AIDS-related educational materi-Īls or implement coordinated AIDS awareness cam. And since government health officials did not Mation and mobilize civil society in response to theĮpidemic. Ities to raise AIDS awareness, counter media misinfor. Neering groups quickly developed a wide range of activ. North America and other parts of the world, these pio. Related nongovernmental organizations (AIDS NGOs)Įmerged in the mid-1980s. Within this context of a rapidly spreading, sexualizedĪnd stigmatizing epidemic, the first Brazilian AIDS. Members of a more general category of those at risk of "promiscuous" gradually joining "homosexuals" as Group" assumed increasing importance in public dis-Ĭourse, with "bisexual" men, prostitutes, intravenousĭrug users, transfusion recipients, and anyone seen as Soon there-Īfter, the seemingly neutral epidemiological term "risk Uality in the Brazilian popular imagination.
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