"We Lived as Do Spouses": AIDS, Neoliberalism, and Family-Based Apartment Succession Rights in 1980s New York City

IF 0.4 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.7560/jhs31103
René Esparza
{"title":"\"We Lived as Do Spouses\": AIDS, Neoliberalism, and Family-Based Apartment Succession Rights in 1980s New York City","authors":"René Esparza","doi":"10.7560/jhs31103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"O n 31 O c t O b e r 1989 , members of the Housing Committee of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/New York (ACT UP/NY), dressed as witches and ghouls, led a Halloween-themed protest in front of the Trump Tower. In addition to candy and condoms, the protesters offered a message for the City of New York: Do not give Donald Trump a forty-year tax abatement to develop the Grand Hyatt while thousands of people with HIV/AIDS sleep on the streets. The protesters explained that a previous tax abatement to build the Trump Tower cost the city $6,208,773—money that could have rehabilitated approximately 1,200 city-owned apartments (fig. 1). “Instead,” a flyer explained, “the apartments remain vacant. And sick people [with AIDS] remain on the streets.” At the time, the city offered a mere forty-four beds through an institution called Bailey House for “people who [were] too sick for the shelters but too healthy for a hospital.” The small fortune the city kicked back to Trump, AIDS activists insisted, should be, in their words, going to “housing for people with AIDS, not condos for people with maids.”1 In that year alone, ACT UP and the Partnership for the Homeless estimated, there were more than ten thousand people with HIV/AIDS who were unhoused in New York City.2 Scholarship on the AIDS epidemic routinely focuses on very public grassroots activism—like that in front of the Trump Tower—and often frames it in opposition to the state. The battle for housing rights and care that erupted in 1980s New York City, however, defies these assumptions. The Halloween protest of 1989 garnered headlines for a day, but AIDS","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"31 1","pages":"59 - 88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs31103","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

O n 31 O c t O b e r 1989 , members of the Housing Committee of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power/New York (ACT UP/NY), dressed as witches and ghouls, led a Halloween-themed protest in front of the Trump Tower. In addition to candy and condoms, the protesters offered a message for the City of New York: Do not give Donald Trump a forty-year tax abatement to develop the Grand Hyatt while thousands of people with HIV/AIDS sleep on the streets. The protesters explained that a previous tax abatement to build the Trump Tower cost the city $6,208,773—money that could have rehabilitated approximately 1,200 city-owned apartments (fig. 1). “Instead,” a flyer explained, “the apartments remain vacant. And sick people [with AIDS] remain on the streets.” At the time, the city offered a mere forty-four beds through an institution called Bailey House for “people who [were] too sick for the shelters but too healthy for a hospital.” The small fortune the city kicked back to Trump, AIDS activists insisted, should be, in their words, going to “housing for people with AIDS, not condos for people with maids.”1 In that year alone, ACT UP and the Partnership for the Homeless estimated, there were more than ten thousand people with HIV/AIDS who were unhoused in New York City.2 Scholarship on the AIDS epidemic routinely focuses on very public grassroots activism—like that in front of the Trump Tower—and often frames it in opposition to the state. The battle for housing rights and care that erupted in 1980s New York City, however, defies these assumptions. The Halloween protest of 1989 garnered headlines for a day, but AIDS
查看原文
分享 分享
微信好友 朋友圈 QQ好友 复制链接
本刊更多论文
“我们和配偶一样生活”:艾滋病、新自由主义和1980年代纽约市以家庭为基础的公寓继承权
1989年10月31日,纽约释放权力艾滋病联盟住房委员会(ACT UP/NY)的成员打扮成女巫和食尸鬼,在特朗普大厦前领导了一场万圣节主题的抗议活动。除了糖果和避孕套,抗议者还向纽约市传达了一个信息:当成千上万的艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者露宿街头时,不要给唐纳德·特朗普40年的减税来开发君悦酒店。抗议者解释说,之前为建造特朗普大厦而减免的税收花费了该市6208773美元,这笔钱本可以修复约1200套城市所有的公寓(图1)。“相反,”一张传单解释道,“公寓仍然空置。(感染艾滋病的)病人仍然流落街头。”当时,该市通过一家名为贝利之家的机构只为“病得太重,不适合收容所,但又太健康,不适合医院的人”提供了四十四张床位,用他们的话说,去“为艾滋病患者提供住房,而不是为有女佣的人提供公寓。”1仅在那一年,ACT UP和无家可归者伙伴关系估计,在纽约市,有一万多名艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者没有接种疫苗。2关于艾滋病流行的奖学金通常侧重于非常公开的草根活动,比如在特朗普大厦前的活动,并经常将其框定为反对该州。然而,20世纪80年代纽约市爆发的住房权和住房保障之争却违背了这些假设。1989年的万圣节抗议活动一度成为头条新闻,但艾滋病
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 去求助
来源期刊
自引率
16.70%
发文量
15
期刊最新文献
Productive Sexological Self-Censorship in Late Communist Poland between State and Church “Are We to Treat Human Nature as the Early Victorian Lady Treated Telegrams?”: British and German Sexual Science, Investigations of Nature, and the Fight against Censorship, ca. 1890–1940 “A Mechanical View of Sex outside the Context of Love and the Family”: Contraception, Censorship, and the Brook Advisory Centre in Britain, 1964–1985 Introduction: Sex, Science, and Censorship Censorship in Flux: Sex and Sexological Knowledge at the Great Police Exhibition of 1926 in Weimar Germany
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
现在去查看 取消
×
提示
确定
0
微信
客服QQ
Book学术公众号 扫码关注我们
反馈
×
意见反馈
请填写您的意见或建议
请填写您的手机或邮箱
已复制链接
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
×
扫码分享
扫码分享
Book学术官方微信
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术
文献互助 智能选刊 最新文献 互助须知 联系我们:info@booksci.cn
Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。
Copyright © 2023 Book学术 All rights reserved.
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号 京ICP备2023020795号-1