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Feminist Review (1990) 34, 120–133. doi:10.1057/fr.1990.16

Mapping: Lesbians, AIDS and Sexuality

Cindy Patton is a long-time feminist and gay activist. She has been involved in AIDS organizing since 1982. Formally an editor of Boston's (US) Gay Community News, she is author of Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS (Boston: South End Press, 1985) and Making It: A Women's Guide to Sex in the Age of AIDS (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1987). Her article, 'AIDS: Lessons from the Gay Community' appeared in FR 30.

Sue O'Sullivan has written about AIDS since 1984. She works as an editor at Sheba Feminist Publishers and is currently working on a book called Positively Women with women from the group of that name.

Thanks to Erica Carter for applying her valuable editorial skills at the last moment.

Cindy  Patton and Sue  O'Sullivan

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