![]() Are we finally returning to the original gay liberation agenda of the eradication of difference, or simply being traduced (seduced?) by our success at intimate citizenship?Įn inventant le terme « post-sida » il y a environ 20 ans, je constatais la dissolution d’une expérience unifiée du VIH et du sida pour les communautés gays, telle qu’elle avait été vécue jusque-là. This might be just a question of politics, or it could be a question of theory. Now, if gay men are to survive as such – and there is a question about this – are there larger issues than HIV and AIDS that ought to command our attention? Or do we need to rethink how we situate HIV and AIDS within the larger framework of gay men’s health and wellbeing. Since then, many other factors have come into play, for example age and generation the ascendancy of the biomedical and the technosexual and the supremacy of neoliberal politics (including sexual politics). ![]() Not only were HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men having increasingly different experiences, but divergent trajectories were opening up. ![]() In coining the term ‘post-AIDS’ some 20 years ago, I was noting the dissolution of a singular and unified experience of HIV and AIDS for gay communities that had been the case until that time.
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