Monday 4 January 2010
US lifts HIV/Aids immigration ban
Posted by Law & Sexuality on 14:48 in HIV/AIDS Law Politics queer USA | Comments : 1
As the BBC, Pink News, and others are reporting, today marks the lifting of the US HIV/AIDS ban. It's a historic shift but we shouldn't be fooled it's an Obama initiative, it was heading in that direction anyway. The ban is a reminder of the fear that HIV/AIDS was met with in the 1980s and a reminder of death and disease at a time when HIV/AIDS is increasingly theorised both by academics and communities. Don't get me wrong, this theorising is important. I'm working on finishing of an article which seeks to apply a queer legal analysis to the English criminal law in this area but HIV/AIDS does not mean the inevitable tombstone in our communities. Even where HIV/AIDS is wrapped in discourses of disease and death, those discourses are themselves becoming fetishised and/or queered so as to take on meanings beyond the orthodox 'negative'.
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This can bring a lot of advantages to us. The US government just protect us from any disease. In order to know if we are infected or not by this disease, we should use ELISA kits to detect any virus inside our body.
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