- Home
- About
- Alexandra Juhasz VHS Collection
- Sister Sites
- Archive of Past Courses
AIDS in the Barrio
Dublin Core
Title
AIDS in the Barrio
Subject
AIDS, Activism, Lesbian, Women Filmmakers, LatinX, Philadelphia
Description
Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "AIDS TV." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this film's depiction of drug use and addiction.
My graduate students in the VHS Archives class at Brooklyn College in 2018 did a great project about this early intervention into community-based, community-specific AIDS educational materials. Frances Negron [Documentary Filmmaker & Professor at Columbia University] is a friend and colleague. At the time we were collaborating again on a special issue of the journal Feminist Media Histories, "Informed Historical Reveries," revisiting "Women of Vision," my book and documentary about feminist media history, in which she was a subject.
Creator
Peter Biella
Publisher
Date
1985
Abstract
Members of the Latino community in Philadelphia discuss the impact of the AIDS crisis on their lives in hopes of preventing others from acquiring the deadly disease. People Living with AIDS (PLWAs) honestly describe their own high-risk behavior - drug use and sexual promiscuity - which resulted in their infection with HIV. Family members reveal the heavy emotional and financial tolls the disease has taken on their lives. Participants also debate cultural factors, including machismo and traditional relations between men and women, that are ancillary factors in the epidemic. A minister/activist places the AIDS crisis within broader socio-economic contexts: unemployment, poverty, language barriers, and homophobia. He stresses the need for tolerance in the community as well as the use of condoms to halt the spread of the disease.
Extent
00:30:13
Medium
VHS
Is Referenced By
Review: AIDS in the Barrio: Eso no me pasa a mi by Peter Biella; Frances Negron
AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video Alexandra Juhasz, Catherine Gund
Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora Lawrence Martin La Fountain-Stokes - 2009 - History
Release the Report, Class Project, 2018
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Duration
00:30:13
Files
Citation
Frances Negron-Muntaner
Peter Biella, “AIDS in the Barrio,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed July 13, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/40.
Comments