still pondering that article
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mellowtiggerGoogle is not helping me to find an article about the "women in white". I guess there just isn't much digitized gay media from the 1980s for searching online. Go figure.
Many months ago, I visited the local Quatrefoil Library to ask how best to search, and they recommended trying the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota. I emailed once to them, and the answer sounded a bit tedious for arranging time when I could access material in that library. Maybe I'll try it, though, when people are allowed to roam again.
I want to find an article that I read around 1988 about the "women in white". I remember a photo of a white woman and a black woman, dressed all in white clothing. They were morticians during the AIDS crisis. They promised to deal respectfully with the bodies of gay men during a time when some of the stern, disapproving men dressed in somber, black clothing might refuse service altogether. I think (low certainty) they were in Florida. Beyond that, my memory fails me.
I can't remember the year or the publication. It might have been the Advocate. I've already done what little online searching I can do for their issues. It might have been This Week In Texas. They have even fewer online archives. It might have been one of the gay porn magazines that had good news articles in them. I know, it sounds weird, like (feigned innocent tone) "I only read Playboy for the articles", but it's true. Some of them had informative reading material.
Their inclusion is an important piece of the blog post that I want to write about a comparison between epidemics. I'm not sure where else to search. Any ideas?
Many months ago, I visited the local Quatrefoil Library to ask how best to search, and they recommended trying the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota. I emailed once to them, and the answer sounded a bit tedious for arranging time when I could access material in that library. Maybe I'll try it, though, when people are allowed to roam again.
I want to find an article that I read around 1988 about the "women in white". I remember a photo of a white woman and a black woman, dressed all in white clothing. They were morticians during the AIDS crisis. They promised to deal respectfully with the bodies of gay men during a time when some of the stern, disapproving men dressed in somber, black clothing might refuse service altogether. I think (low certainty) they were in Florida. Beyond that, my memory fails me.
I can't remember the year or the publication. It might have been the Advocate. I've already done what little online searching I can do for their issues. It might have been This Week In Texas. They have even fewer online archives. It might have been one of the gay porn magazines that had good news articles in them. I know, it sounds weird, like (feigned innocent tone) "I only read Playboy for the articles", but it's true. Some of them had informative reading material.
Their inclusion is an important piece of the blog post that I want to write about a comparison between epidemics. I'm not sure where else to search. Any ideas?
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Date: 2020-Apr-09, Thursday 06:42 am (UTC)https://www.afr.com/politics/view-the-departed-but-death-hardly-gets-a-look-in-20060729-jfa6e
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Date: 2020-Apr-09, Thursday 08:51 pm (UTC)Maybe this was them, and I mixed it up somewhere along the line?
That article (I had to scavenge the HTML for the text behind the paywall) covers all the correct concepts I remember:
And their own page establishes the right timeframe: 1987.
https://www.whiteladyfunerals.com.au/about-us/
It sounds like they adopted a trend that was already in place at the time. Still wish I could find the original article I have in mind, but this one will definitely suffice to anchor the idea to that time period.
Thanks!