AIDS

AIDS, Melancholia & Queer memory
Debanuj DasGupta with Mathew Stuart Jarret. Stewart Jarret plays the character of Belize in the play & the Bethesda Fountain is one of the key Manhattan sites recreated on stage for the play Angels in America.

In this essay, I revisit my early struggles with AIDS diagnosis during the summer of 2003. The recollections allow me to rethink how the New York cityscape and coming out about my HIV status to my parents in India shapes a racialised experience with HIV and AIDS, family relations, and transnational migration. Such a racialised experience is erased within Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.

By Debanuj DasGupta
April 16, 2018
AIDS, Melancholia & Queer memory
An Indefinite Sentence: Love, Homophobia and the AIDS Panic in 1980s India
Dominic D’Souza, a young gay man. He is smiling at the camera. He wears a white vest peeking through this black-and-white striped shirt, and a red shawl thrown around his shoulders.

I WAS 26 YEARS OLD in 1988, living in Delhi, where I had recently moved after several years as a…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
An Indefinite Sentence: Love, Homophobia and the AIDS Panic in 1980s India
How Do You Battle AIDS if No One Talks About Sex? KP’s Transgenders Speak Out
Photo of four transgender people.

In Peshawar alone, the community consists of over 500 transgenders. At least 20 per cent of these have AIDS. Their risk of contracting AIDS is higher, since 59 per cent of khawaja saras report to have at least one sexually transmitted infection.

By Curated Content
April 18, 2016
How Do You Battle AIDS if No One Talks About Sex? KP’s Transgenders Speak Out
Positive Power!
Professionals standing in a row on stage. They join their hands and raised them up in celebration. The poster on the wall behind them reads, "Positive power".

On the occasion of World AIDS Day 2015, I could not help but ponder on what the day means to…

By Curated Content
December 15, 2015
Positive Power!
Unraveling the Myth: People with Disabilities Do It Too

‘People say, someone who has a disability should not indulge in sex,’ Inocente, a blind man in his 40s, told…

By Shantha Rau Barriga
August 1, 2014
Unraveling the Myth: People with Disabilities Do It Too