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概述-历史记载
Introduction
- Historical Notes
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广泛流行的艾滋病-旧金山流行的艾滋病1
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旧金山，这个以其秀丽而著名的美国城市，有适宜的气候和宽容的社会风土人情。她于1950年代吸引着“巡回”诗人纷至沓来，1960年代又吸引着“嬉皮士”和“鲜花儿童”的脚步。1970年代，她曾经是全美国各地、甚至许多其他国家的同性恋者和双性恋者青睐的目的地。从而，旧金山不久就成了“世界同性恋之都”。在那里，男同性恋者和女同性恋者取得了相当大的社会和政治上的成功，他们/她们的性乌托邦似乎会成为现实。 然而，1980年代早期，当第一批新的、神秘的病例在加州和纽约被报道的时候，不期而至的灾难便展开了帷幕。后来，这种疾病开始被称为艾滋病（AIDS），但是起初它没有名字而且困扰着每一个人，包括医生也迷惑不解。随着病例数量的增加，人们开始认识到它是有传染性的，它是通过性接触传播的，它能够致死人命的，而且它似乎专门感染男性同性恋者。确实，普通大众开始把它看作是"男同性恋病"，认为它只局限在旧金山和其他汇集有大量同性恋者人口的城市。
面对这个日益令人恐惧的局面，组织严密的旧金山男同性恋社团齐心协力，制定出预防和治疗的开拓性计划，它成了美国其他城市的范本，最后为其他国家所效仿。
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The
AIDS Pandemic
- AIDS in San Francisco I
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The American city of San Francisco, famous for its beauty, culture, good weather, and tolerant social climate, had attracted the ”beat“ poets in the 1950s and the “hippies“ and “flower children” in the 1960s. In the 1970s, it was the favourite destination of homosexuals and bisexuals from all over the country and indeed from many other countries. Thus, San Francisco soon became the “gay capital of the world”. There, gays and lesbians made considerable social and political gains, and their dreams of a sexual utopia seemed to be coming true.
However, in the early 1980s an unexpected tragedy began to unfold as the first cases of a new, mysterious disease were reported in California and in New York. This disease later came to be known as AIDS, but at first it had no name and puzzled everyone, including the doctors. As the number of cases increased, people began to realize that it was contagious, that it was sexually transmitted, that it could be deadly, and that it especially seemed to affected gay men. Indeed, the general public came to think of it as a “gay disease” which would restrict itself to San Francisco and other cities with large homosexual populations.
In this increasingly frightening situation, the well-organized San Francisco gay community pulled together and developed pioneering programs of prevention and care that became models for other American cities and, eventually, for other countries and the world.
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