The Impact of the AIDS Epidemic Decades On with Anthony Mohamed

Queer Devotions

English - April 20, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB
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Today on Resisting the Script: 25+ Years of Queer Activism, we will be talking with Anthony Mohamed. Anthony is an award-winning community activist, and has worked to bring equity to healthcare, across Ontario and in Toronto. In this episode, Anthony shares his eyewitness accounts of the gay liberation movement and watching the AIDS epidemic unfold around him, first called the “gay disease.” Anthony shares how it transformed queer communities in Toronto - and reflects on the core politics that unite the different struggles he has engaged in.