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CATEGORIES:Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of
  Science
SUMMARY:'VD is no camp': creating and communicating knowle
 dge about same-sex venereal disease transmission i
 n the Anglo-American world\, c.1939–1984 - Richard
  McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Sc
 ience)
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UID:TALK47662AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/47662
DESCRIPTION:In 1964\, the Mattachine Society of New York – the
 n one of the United States' largest groups advocat
 ing for the public understanding of homosexuals – 
 found itself under pressure to address the issue o
 f venereal disease (VD). Amid nation-wide concern 
 that VD rates had been increasing steadily for a n
 umber of years\, several reports highlighted the s
 eemingly new and prominent role of homosexual men 
 in the spread of sexually transmitted infections\,
  particularly syphilis. At a time when homosexual 
 relations were still penalized by law and many gay
  men were deeply uneasy about co-operating with pu
 blic authorities\, the New York Mattachine Society
  collaborated with the city's health department to
  publish an informational leaflet\, entitled 'VD i
 s no camp'\, which was aimed specifically at this 
 group. This presentation will examine the delicate
  navigations undertaken by members of the Mattachi
 ne Society to produce and distribute its leaflet. 
 It will contrast the organisation's collaboration 
 with the city's health department\, on the one han
 d\, with the suspicion of public health authoritie
 s advocated by its Californian contemporaries on t
 he other. The presentation's focus on these debate
 s will highlight the need to complicate a conventi
 onal historical periodization which implies that V
 D did not emerge as a serious concern for men havi
 ng sex with men until the 1970s. Finally\, by trac
 ing the leaflet's circulation beyond US borders\, 
 the presentation suggests that a transnational fra
 mework may be important when analyzing responses t
 o VD during the middle decades of the twentieth ce
 ntury.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philoso
 phy of Science
CONTACT:Helen Curry
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