Difference between revisions of "AIDS: The FTM Response and the Death of Lou Sullivan"

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===The First Transman to Die of AIDS===  
 
===The First Transman to Die of AIDS===  
''"I've recently been diagnosed with AIDS and don't expect to be around long.  And I want my story preserved.''  -Lou Sullivan<ref name="Lou Sullivan">Video: Female to Gay Male Transexualism: 1 Gender and Sexual Orientation, Interview by Ira B. Pauly, University of Nevada School of Medicine, 1/12/1988</ref>
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''"I've recently been diagnosed with AIDS and don't expect to be around long.  And I want my story preserved.''   
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-Lou Sullivan
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(Video: Female to Gay Male Transexualism: 1 Gender and Sexual Orientation, Interview by Ira B. Pauly, University of Nevada School of Medicine, 1/12/1988)
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Revision as of 00:56, 13 February 2010

Timeline

  • 1986 - Lou Sullivan is diagnosed with HIV
  • July 4, 1989 - Lou Sullivan's Letter to David
  • June 1990 - FTM gathering addresses issues of AIDS
  • March 2, 1991 - Lou Sullivan becomes the first FTM to die of AIDS
  • April 1991 - Lou Sullivan is Memorialized in FTM Issue 15
  • Autumn 1996 - FTM Issue 35 article: Silence=Death?


Letter to David 7/4/1989


FTM Advocacy


The First Transman to Die of AIDS

"I've recently been diagnosed with AIDS and don't expect to be around long. And I want my story preserved. -Lou Sullivan (Video: Female to Gay Male Transexualism: 1 Gender and Sexual Orientation, Interview by Ira B. Pauly, University of Nevada School of Medicine, 1/12/1988)


Lou dies of AIDS on March 2, 1991.


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