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Title: You don't have to be a queenie to get AIDS [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued: 1988
Publication Information: Sydney (N.S.W.)
Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Australia. Dept. of Health, Housing, Local Government and Community Services
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: AIDS Posters Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 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.
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.
You can't cure AIDS, you can only be careful! Use a condom
Type: image
Identifier: AT008
ark:/21198/zz0002jpm9
Language: English
Subject: Couples
Heterosexuality
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--transmission
Indigenous peoples--Australia
AIDS (Disease)--Transmission
Cemeteries
Source: AIDS Posters Collection

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