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Title: Craig Lustig Interview Part 1, April 29, 2021
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Craig Lustig; Audrey Barnett
Description: Craig Lustig speaks with Audrey Barnett about becoming aware and accepting of his sexuality as gay while in college during the peak of the HIV/AIDS crisis. He discusses taking his first HIV test with a friend and meeting his boyfriend's friend who was HIV positive. Craig then explains how his cancer diagnosis in the early 1990s informed and catalyzed his involvement in the HIV/AIDS movement, specifically volunteering with the Gay Men's Health Crisis in New York City.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; New York City; Binghampton, NY; caretaker; cancer; Gay Men's Health Crisis; sexuality; gay; HIV testing; cancer patient; brain tumor; chemotherapy; pediatric oncology; intake clinician; cancer treatment; Bellevue Hospital; volunteer
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3254
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Title: Craig Lustig Interview Part 2, April 29, 2021
Date: April 29, 2021
Creator: Craig Lustig; Audrey Barnett
Description: In part 2 of their interview, Craig Lustig continues describing his time and frustrations as a cancer treatment patient and how that informed his caregiving to people with HIV. Audrey then asks him to compare the availability and types of HIV treatment and support available between New York and DC. The conversation then moves to a comparison of Craig's early and present-day work as a caregiving professional. Lastly, Craig describes how he and his partner became foster parents.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; Washington, DC; New York City; AIDS treatment; caregiving; cancer treatment; AIDS treatment; National Institutes of Health; Reagan Administration; healthcare; healthcare access; chronic illness; activism; foster system; foster parent; adoption; LGBT; LGBT youth
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3257
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