O que fizemos da AIDS: entre representações e negociações dos corpos soropositivos em aparatos culturais

Abstract

The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s has contributed to a larger social segregation of the categorized social minorities, initially and mainly of male cisgender homosexual, reaching the LGBT+ community in general. As a new infection, AIDS was influenced by articulations between biomedical and media discourses that built truths about the new health condition in the 1980s, which still reverberate in our society today, segregating people. In Brazil, the service, treatment and control of HIV infection and AIDS disease is being offered for free since 1996, but the number of infections is increasing and there is little talk about it in society. Upon discovering seropositive a new reality opens up and, with it, new possibilities of the exercise of existence in society, permeated by preconception, subjectivity and social action. Cultural apparatus such as campaigns, films, texts and magazines convey representations and still teach about seropositivity in a way often linked to the onset of the epidemic in the 1980s. Investigating the representations of AIDS in cultural apparatus is the objective of this research. The representations created about seropositivities are important for us to understand how and if the image created in the 1980s have been modified and how these cultural apparatuses have taught about seropositivities. It’s intended to contribute to the maintenance of the debate on HIV/AIDS in society and to bring it together as contextual analyzes of health, culture, politics and society, permeated by studies of genders and sexualities.