You don't have to be a queenie to get AIDS [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

You don't have to be a queenie to get AIDS [inscribed]

Date

1988

Place of Origin

Sydney (N.S.W.)

Publisher

Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Australia. Dept. of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services

Language

English

Collection

AIDS Posters Collection

Notes

Description

Date on back of poster, 1995, reflects when the vendor received the copy later acquired by the UCLA Library.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item AT008.
Cartoon depicting a married man who celebrates a "big day" by going to a bar and having unprotected sex with someone with AIDS. On returning home, he infects his wife, and they both get sick. He is shown in a hospital bed. The last frame of the cartoon is a cemetery, with four headstones spelling out the word "AIDS." The poster suggests that it is not only homosexual men who get, and pass on, the AIDS virus.

Caption

You can't cure AIDS, you can only be careful! Use a condom

Physical Description

Dimensions

53 x 76 cm. (21 x 30 in.)

Condition note

Additional poster text: A man has sex with someone who has AIDS. He goes back to his wife, who gets AIDS from him. They all get very, very sick. The end.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

Australia

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Couples
Heterosexuality
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--transmission
Indigenous peoples--Australia
AIDS (Disease)--Transmission
Cemeteries