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Feminist Review (1988) 30, 105–111. doi:10.1057/fr.1988.46
AIDS: Lessons from the Gay Community
Cindy Patton has been active in feminist and gay organizing for a decade, and AIDS organizing since 1982. Formerly an editor of Boston's (US) Gay Community News, she is author of Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS (1985, South End Press: Boston) and Making It: A Woman's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS (1987, Firebrand Books: Ithaca, NY).
This article is based on a paper delivered at the Feminism and Activism Conference, 4 October 1987, sponsored by the Five College Women's Studies Project, Amherst, Massachusetts. Thanks to Amy Hoffman for comments and thanks to Margaret Hunt and Meryl Findgrudt for organizing the conference.
Cindy Patton
