Viral memories: From HIV to COVID-19 and beyond

COVID-19改变了我们对风险和幸福的看法。在某些方面，这种情况以前也发生过：在20世纪80年代和90年代，艾滋病毒引起了艾滋病的流行，这改变了我们彼此之间的关系。今天，对许多人来说，艾滋病毒仍然与男同性恋者联系在一起，他们通过自己的经历和记忆来理解和度过COVID-19。通过对年轻和年长男同性恋者的采访，我将探讨他们在COVID-19期间如何记住艾滋病毒，以及他们对艾滋病毒的记忆和经历如何帮助他们在英国应对COVID-19风险。我将与社区组织合作，开发更好的方式来沟通风险，并在同性恋社区的历史上写下新的篇章。

COVID-19 has altered how we feel about risk and wellbeing. In some ways, this has happened before: in the 1980s and 90s, HIV caused the AIDS pandemic, which transformed how we related to each other. Today, for many, HIV remains associated with gay men, who have turned to their experiences and memories of it to understand and live through COVID-19. Through interviews with younger and older gay men, I will explore how they remember HIV during COVID-19, and how their memories and experiences of HIV help them navigate COVID-19 risk in the UK. I will work with community organizations to develop better ways of communicating about risk and writing a new chapter in the history of gay communities.