Despite great bounds in state legislature and services provided by Student Health Services for HIV preventative medicine, Adam Akins PZ ‘27 argues that a lack of knowledge, training and care for the queer and minority communities affected still remains.
Tag: AIDs Crisis
Hidden Gems: ‘My Government Means to Kill Me’ charts political and sexual awakening amidst the AIDS crisis
Rasheed Newson’s “My Government Means to Kill Me” fictionalizes the social movements that arose in response to the U.S. government’s lackluster response to the AIDs crisis. Newson’s robust knowledge of LGBTQ history shines through the novel, but it falls short in its capacity as a narrative, writes book columnist Natalie Ortiz PO ‘25.