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- Barbara Lewis Interview, October 26, 2019
- Date
- October 26, 2019
- Creator
- Cameron Sandlin; Barbara Lewis
- Description
- Barbara Lewis, Physician Assistant at Whitman-Walker Health, reflects on her experiences working and advocating for LGBTQ+ health. She talks about working at Whitman-Walker for 40 years, and remembers founding the first lesbian health clinic in 1979. She remembers promoting safe sex, and talking about safe sex between women in particular in the 90s. She defines safe sex as protecting yourself against giving/recieving an STI. Barbara reflects on her first time learning about AIDS at Whitman-Walker in 1981, and chronicles the steps the clinic has taken since. She hopes the next generation will take charge of their health and bodies, including practicing safe sex.
- Subject
- Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); Barriers for safer sex; HIV (human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; LGBTQ activism; Safe sex; Sex education; STIs (sexually transmitted infections); Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV; Bacterial vaginosis; HPV (human papillomavirus); Food & Drug Administration (FDA); ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power); AIDS buyers clubs
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1991
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- mixed material
- Title
- Kiersten Morris Interview, October 26, 2019
- Date
- October 26, 2019
- Creator
- Kai Walther; Kiersten Morris
- Description
- Kiersten Morris talks about learning about safe sex for the first time. She remembers having an abstinence-only sex education in high school, so the first time she learned about safe sex was through an LGBTQ organization at her university. Kiersten discusses learning about AIDS in high school as "a gay thing" and how her perspective changed after taking a gay and lesbian documentay class in college. She hopes the next generation will learn about how to have safe sex with their specific partners, and how to prevent each STI.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; Whitman-Walker Health; HIV/AIDS healthcare; LGBT healthcare; gay activism; lesbian activism; queer activism; LGBTQ activism; The Walk and 5K to End HIV; 2019 The Walk and 5K to End HIV
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Taking the Truck OUT!: Whitman Walker 5K 2019
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1994
- mods_typeOfResource_mt
- moving image