Professor Jennifer Breyer
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And it's these individual people and organizations that are fledgling, that are forming in response to a crisis that really shapes the early 1980s in some profound ways.
And the Blood Sisters are part of that.
And I get the chills just hearing.
I mean, it's like I can feel it in my body.
Yeah.
Well, the Lesbian Blood Sisters, they were in lots of different places, but the ones that have the greatest historical record are the ones in San Diego, California, which is in Southern California.
It's a Navy town.
It's a town that has a huge Navy base and a longstanding Democratic party.
Democratic tradition.
Blood sisters were primarily in the case of San Diego and also in some other places.
They were part of a sort of budding and it's it's a complicated story.
And obviously your listeners will not be surprised to hear this.
This is before there is some there is an acronym called LGBT.
It's certainly before there's an acronym called LGBTQ.
This is the early 1980s, 1982, 1983.
And it's a time when, just to put one more contextual piece in place, we were working with the representation coming out of
particularly popular media, but not entirely just popular media, I think also public health, was this idea that there were four H's, the four H's of the categories of people who were at risk for acquiring this thing called AIDS.
It was actually maybe even then still called sometimes GRID, gay-related immunodeficiency.
So just to sort of think about that, that there would be something called gay-related immunodeficiency that then became AIDS.
but the four H's, homosexuals.
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