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Play Fair!
This safer sex brochure was developed by The San Francisco Order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. It is considered one of the first safer sex materials written for and by gay men.
From the front:
"Several months ago, Mother Superior…
From the front:
"Several months ago, Mother Superior…
Tags: 1980s, Condoms, Emergence of AIDS, Gay Men, STIs
Lesbians: Low Risk for AIDS, High Risk for Discrimination
This brochure features of myths and facts about lesbians and AIDS, noting that while lesbians may be at low risk for developing AIDS, they are nonetheless targeted by AIDS-related homophobia.
Tags: 1980s, Discrimination, HIV/AIDS, Lesbians, Pamphlet
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.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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
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…