In the 1990s, these Black queer women in the south joined a wave of young people across the U.S. who realized they needed to do harm reduction themselves.
, short for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Early media focused on white gay men in California and New York. But between 1991 and 1999, HIV was the leading cause of death across the U.S. for Black men between 25 and 44 years old.
They joined a wave of young people across the U.S. who realized they needed to do harm reduction themselves. Working with other queer Black women they knew throughClimax Books The parties were the first time Brown-Nichols had ever talked so openly about sex. “Where I grew up, sex was between two people in the dark — way in the dark. But at the parties, it was like, ‘This is how I do it. And I'm not ashamed of it.’ The feeling I had was that whatever happened in those parties, whatever people said in those parties, wasn't going to leave and be out in the community.
People also talked about childhood sexual abuse and experiences of rape and other violence. “You couldn’t help but get into some of the trauma. Some of those women had been beaten by men,” Hudson remembers. “This was kind of a sacred space because there was a lot of trauma that was revealed during some of those sessions.”
After the safer sex conversations, people often ate catfish, danced, and sometimes hooked up. “My house almost became the house of ill-repute,” Hudson remembers. “Because people get to talking about sex, at times people would be aroused. And next thing you know, they’d be over there kissing. I’d say, ‘You’re gonna have to take that home. Or pay some rent or something.’ Girls gone wild.” She would go to bed because she had work in the morning and ask partygoers to lock up when they left.
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