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"Let's Go Safe Sex Shopping!"
On Our Backs was a lesbian erotica magazine published from 1984 to 2006 that featured articles and photography on lesbian sexuality. Billed as the magazine for the "adventurous lesbian," the publication was a direct response to anti-pornography…
"Lesbians & AIDS"
On Our Backs was a lesbian erotica magazine published from 1984 to 2006 that featured articles and photography on lesbian sexuality. Billed as the magazine for the "adventurous lesbian," the publication was a direct response to anti-pornography…
AIDS-Safe S/M: AIDS Prevention for Gay Men into S/M
"Gay men who enjoy S/M have always relied to a high degree on their imagination, mutual trust, and an awareness of limits and possible dangers. In the face of the AIDS epidemic even more ingenuity and risk-assessment are called for if S/M sex is to…
Making It: A Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS
"This publication is designed to present facts and help promote an understanding of how coping with AIDS is different for each woman--heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, rich, poor...It has suggestions on how to make the changes necessary for our…
Tags: 1980s, Bisexuals, Communication, Condoms, Dental dams, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, Risk
Safer Sex Comix #8
This pocket-sized comic from GMHC was part of a series aimed at encouraging safer sex practices through eroticizing condom use. These comics were distributed to GMHC clients and at bars in the New York City area. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) later…
Safer Sex is for Everyone
This flyer emphasizes how emphasizes how the virus that causes AIDS is transmitted and suggests that you can "Have all the sex you want. Just be sure to make it safer." One strategy refers to a 1980s safer sex axiom directed at gay men to ejaculate…
Tags: "On me not in me", 1980s, Condoms, Emergence of AIDS, Flyer, Gay Men, GMHC, HIV/AIDS
Safer Sex Shorts
A series of erotic and explicit shorts combine the driving rhythms of music videos with slick, rapidly edited images. Scenarios include how-tos on using a condom, supplementing fun with food, and making it in the back seat. Each short is…
Can We Talk?
Tri-fold pamphlet produced by the Harvey Milk Lesbian & Gay Democratic Club and distributed by the AIDS Project Hartford. "AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is a serious crisis affecting everyone, but especially gay men. We wrote this…
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach
"The question on every sexually active gay man's mind these days is: "How can I avoid AIDS?' Since no one knows for sure how gay men are developing AIDS, you may wonder how rational guidelines to prevent the disease can be formulated. Obviously, we…
Lesbians and AIDS: What's the Connection?
This brochure includes basic information about the epidemiology of AIDS at the time, modes of transmission, safer sex practices for women who have sex with women, and why AIDS is a relevant social issue even to women who are not at risk.