Sex In An Epidemic
Film: Sex In An Epidemic
Wilbur T. Wildcat
Antonio Estrada, PhD
TA: Joel Saldaña
MAS150B1, Section [E] or [G]
DUE DATE: 18 October 2017
Reaction Paper #1
Paragraph #1: Introduction
Background
Thesis
Paragraph #2: Body Paragraph *You can have more than 1 body paragraph
Topic Sentence
Critical Analysis
Sources (in-text citations)
Paragraph #3: Conclusion
Relevance
Works Cited
Film
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MAS 150B1
Response Paper #2
Guiding Questions
– Have attitudes in the United States changed towards people with HIV/AIDS in the last forty (40) years? Are these attitudes consistent or biased across racial, class, and gender lines?
– Sex in an Epidemic makes extensive use of archival material to convey a chronological trajectory of the HIV/AIDS landscape in the 1980s and 1990s. What are the most important lessons to be learned from this history? Explain.
– Explain the socio-political impact of abstinence-only sex education programs in HIV prevention outreach programs?
– Do social justice and activist causes have a role in HIV prevention? Explain.
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“Sex in an Epidemic” makes a significant contribution to the knowledge about emergence and explosion of AIDS in the United States, particularly its impacts on the gay community. The film is of importance as it intelligently tracks the history of AIDS panic and its activism that was provocative and compelling. Significantly, the film linked the emergence of the disease in the 1980s to the modern sex education methods (Carlomusto, Jean). Specifically, this entailed interview footage from gay activists and news reports in the late 19th century as a powerful controversy that surrounded AIDS education………………
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