Organising care and community in the era of the ‘gay disease’ Gay community responses to HIV/AIDS and the production of differentiated care geographies in Vancouver

• Published in: Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) Vol. 58; no. 7; pp. 1346 - 1363
• Main Authors: Catungal, John Paul, Klassen, Benjamin, Ablenas, Robert, Lambert, Sandy, Chown, Sarah, Lachowsky, Nathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England Sage Publications, Inc 01.05.2021; SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; Activism; AIDS; Community; Community organizing; Community services; Disease; Health problems; Heteronormativity; HIV; Homophobia; Homosexuality; Human geography; Human immunodeficiency virus; LGBTQ community; Long term survivor; Politics; Remembering; Scholarships & fellowships; Sexual behavior; Sexually transmitted diseases; Social response; STD; Urban areas; Urban geography; 社区服务; 地方框架; 同性恋; AIDS; 激进主义; place-frames; gay; 护理; activism; care; community services; 艾滋病
• ISSN: 0042-0980; 1360-063X; 1360-063X
• DOI: 10.1177/0042098020984908

Scholarship on the place of the HIV/AIDS crisis in urban geographies of sexual minority activism has powerfully insisted on the importance of community organising as a response to state and societal failures and to their homophobic, AIDS phobic and morally conservative underpinnings. This paper extends this scholarship by examining the urban social geographies of exclusion produced by such community organising efforts. It draws on the perspectives of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS (LTS) in Vancouver to highlight the differentiated care geographies of HIV/AIDS that resulted from the racialised, classed and gendered politics and urban imaginations enacted by gay and allied HIV/AIDS organising. Though LTS networks, spaces and politics of care and community were more extended than Vancouver’s gay community during the 1980s and 1990s, the centring of the West End gay village in many community-led responses to HIV/AIDS resulted in LTS geographies outside the West End being excluded from important systems of care and community. LTS narratives of the city at the time of the ‘gay disease’ thus tell an urban politics of sexual and health activisms as shaped not only by processes of heteronormativity and homophobia but also of racially, colonially and class-inflected homonormative urban imaginaries. 关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病危机在性少数群体激进主义的城市地理中的地位的学术研究，有力地坚持了社区组织的重要性，这是对国家和社会的失败、及其对同性恋、艾滋病的恐惧和道德保守主义基础的回应。本文通过考察这种社区组织努力所产生的排斥的城市社会地理，扩展了这一学术研究。我们基于温哥华艾滋病毒/艾滋病长期幸存者 (LTS) 的观点，强调了艾滋病毒/艾滋病护理的地理差异性，这是由同性恋和艾滋病毒/艾滋病联盟组织实施的种族化、阶级化和性别化的政治和城市想象造成的。虽然在20世纪80年代和90年代，LTS的网络、空间和关怀社区的政治比温哥华的同性恋社区更为广泛，但西端区 (West End) 同性恋村在许多社区主导的艾滋病毒/艾滋病应对措施中的中心地位导致西端区以外的LTS地区被排除在重要的关怀和社区系统之外。因此，LTS在“同性恋疾病”时期的城市叙事讲述了一种性与健康激进主义的城市政治，塑造这种政治的不仅包括异性恋正统主义与同性恋恐惧，还包括种族化、殖民化和阶级化的同性恋正统主义城市想象。