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Asking Gay Men to Be Careful Isn’t Homophobia
Public-health officials don’t need to tiptoe around how monkeypox is currently being transmitted.
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Jim Downs
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The Atlantic
on
August 13, 2022
Never Forget That Early Vaccines Came From Testing on Enslaved People
The practice of vaccination in the U.S. cannot be divorced from the history of slavery.
by
Jim Downs
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STAT
on
June 19, 2022
Without Context, COVID Tallies Are Misleading
Counting both uninfected and infected people helps us better understand a pandemic.
by
Jim Downs
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Los Angeles Times
on
December 19, 2021
Queer History Should Focus on Queer People
Sexless, impersonal academic approaches tell us little about the lived experiences of the LGBT community.
by
Jim Downs
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
September 22, 2021
How Transatlantic Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today
Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.
by
Jim Downs
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TIME
on
September 2, 2021
This Pandemic Isn’t Over
The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.
by
Jim Downs
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The Atlantic
on
June 9, 2021
The Gay Marriages of a Nineteenth-Century Prison Ship
What seemed to enrage a former inmate most was the mutual consent of the men he lived with.
by
Jim Downs
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The New Yorker
on
July 2, 2020
The Epidemics America Got Wrong
Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.
by
Jim Downs
via
The Atlantic
on
March 22, 2020
Before Stonewall, There Was a Bookstore
Networks of activists transformed Stonewall from an isolated event into a turning point in the struggle for gay power.
by
Jim Downs
via
The Atlantic
on
June 27, 2019
Writing Gay History
How the story itself came out.
by
Jim Downs
via
Humanities
on
June 27, 2019
During the 1973 UpStairs Lounge Arson, Gays Had to Take Rescue Efforts Into Their Own Hands
The New Orleans Fire Department was accused of not responding immediately and refusing to touch the bodies of victims.
by
Jim Downs
via
Slate
on
June 22, 2018
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How prior generations of Americans responded to the threat of infectious disease.
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What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox
Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.
by
Joshua Gutterman Tranen
via
Boston Review
on
October 3, 2022