[untitled] your apocalypse was fab
Another dead, and another, and another. But your Covid apocalypse was fab, and it was stopped by developing vaccines in record time, while queer people in many countries still die of AIDS due to a lack of access to medicines. Queer people are still waiting for a cure. Queer people are still stigmatized. Wearing a condom, gloves, or wearing a mask – which is the less dangerous?
Poster for the youth culture campaign Beat It, 1989.
From the archive of Helseutvalget, Skeivt arkiv, University of Bergen Library.
Poster produced by Sundhedsstyrelsen AIDS-Sekretariatet, Denmark 1995.
Artist: Jersild, production: Freddy Pedersen / Laursen Tønder. From the archive of Helseutvalget, Skeivt arkiv, the University of Bergen Library.
If I am not afraid of getting AIDS, why should I be afraid of COVID? by Dante Solomon, 2020. Digital collage with «Vanitas» by Jan Sanders van Hemessen (ca. 1535). From a digital exhibition project organized by Queer/ Disrupt, with permission of the artist.
Danish bible from 1633, page 1499 (numbered 148).