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Title: 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
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1991
Rights statement: Copyright for this object is held by American University and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Faith Mitchell Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Faith Mitchell
Description: Faith Mitchell of Whitman-Walker Health talks about why she attended the 5K and why she thinks talking about safe sex is important. She shares why she thinks it's important to be part of the activist community, and the work she does as a Prevention Programs Coordinator with Whitman-Walker. Faith discusses her own experience leaning about safe sex as a gay-identifying woman growing up, and why parents and teachers need to talk to more kids about the importance of safe sex.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; Safe sex; Sex education; Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1992
Rights statement: Copyright for this object is held by American University and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Frances Reed Interview, October 26, 2019
Date: October 26, 2019
Creator: Cameron Sandlin; Frances Reed
Description: Whitman-Walker Health board member Frances Reed discusses their experiences learning about safe sex and AIDS. As a queer trans person growing up in Texas in the 1980s, they remember learning that sex was basically death. They reflect on learning about sex in college as a "rapid absorption" of information and sex positivity. Frances sees safe sex as a dicsussion between sexual partners at the beginning of a relationship. They remember first learning about AIDS when two close friends of her family were diagnosed, and they reflect on being personally compelled to fight the disease. They talk about why it's important to view AIDS as an ongoing problem, especially in underserved communities. Frances hopes the next generation will learn their history, understand the loss the LGBTQ+ community has suffered, and see sex not as death but as something that is pleasurable and liberating.
Subject: Whitman-Walker Health; AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome); HIV (‎human immunodeficiency virus); HIV/AIDS activism; Safe sex; Sex education; STIs (sexually transmitted infections); Whitman-Walker Walk & 5K to End HIV; Polyamory; PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis)
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1993
Rights statement: Copyright for this object is held by American University and does not preclude any use the co-interviewee(s) may want to make of the information in the recordings themselves. This object is made available through the American University Digital Research Archive for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the object beyond the bounds of Fair Use must be obtained from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.