Toronto Living with Aids
Toronto: Public Books, 2024
ISBN 9780921344582
Toronto Living with AIDS edited by Ryan Conrad features interviews, reflections, and essays on the Toronto Living with AIDS (TLWA) cable series that was distributed on Rogers and MacLean-Hunter networks in Toronto from 1990-1991.TLWA represents the largest and most organized community-based effort to create audiovisual work about the AIDS crisis in Canada. The series was eventually terminated as a result of concerns over censorship. This book is published as part of a project to recover, preserve, digitize, historicize, and analyze the TWLA series and its impact in Toronto and Canada more broadly. Ryan Conrad maps the progression of the epidemic alongside the progression of consumer-grade video technology.
Contents:
Introduction by Wanda vanderStoop and Kim Tomczak;
Cable Access Queer: Revisiting Toronto Living with AIDS (1990-1991) by Ryan Conrad; Interviews with original participants in Toronto Living with AIDS projects Debbie Douglas, Richard Fung, John Greyson, Colman Jones, Glace Lawrence, James MacSwain, Ted Myerscough, Ian Rashid, Kaspar Saxena, and Darien Taylor; Reflections by Chase Joynt, Alison Duke, Andil Gosine, Peter Knegt, Kiera Boult, Kristin Li, Alex McClelland, Mikki Burino, Jamie Whitecrow, Jon Davies, and Jessica Whitbread; Biographies for interviewees and reflectors.
The TLWA series includes:
The World is Sick (sic) (1989)
Fighting Chance (1990)
Nibo' Apinewin (1990)
Bolo! Bolo! (1991)
Voices of Positive Women (1992)
The Great AZT Debate (1989)
The Medicine Show (1990)
AIDS: A Family Affair (1990)
Person Livid with AIDS: A Day in the Life of a Gay Man Living with AIDS (PLWA) (1990)
anOther Love Story (1990)
The Cause of AIDS: Facts and Speculation (1990)
The Colour of Immunity (1991)
ITEM 2024.009 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Fighting Chance – Richard Fung
Bolo! Bolo! – Kaspar Saxena
The World is Sick (sic) – John Greyson
Médecins de Coeur – Tahani Rached
Our Bodies Our Business – George Stamos
Angry Initiatives – John Greyson
Defiant Strategies – John Greyson
The Cause of AIDS: Fact and Speculation – Colman Jones
Lest We Forget: Syphilis in the AIDS Era – Colman Jones
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic: One Approach – Michael Callen
House of Numbers – Brent Leung
AIDS: A Family Affair – Marc Berube
Person Livid with AIDS: A Day in the Life of a Gay Man Living with AIDS – Michael Smith
The Medicine Show – Gregory Wright
The Executor – James MacSwain
anOther Love Story: Women and AIDS – Debbie Douglas
Working Girls – Lizzie Borden
Les Autres/ Women and AIDS – Anne Goldens
The Colour of Immunity – Glace Lawrence
Nibo' Apinewin – Ted Myerscough
Keewaywin: AIDS in the First Nations – Doug Broman
Orientations – Richard Fung
Bright Eyes – Stuart Marshall
Steam Clean – Richard Fung
Sea in the Blood – Richard Fung
Dance of the Revolution – Phillip Pike
Voices of Positive Women – Michael Balser
Enough is Enough – Debbie Douglas
Skin – Colin Campbell
Zero Patience – John Greyson
Rex vs Singh – Richard Fung
These Shoes Weren't Made for Walking – Paul Lee
Video Re/View – Lisa Steele
The Pink Pimpernel – John Greyson
No Sad Songs – Nick Sheenan
This is Not an AIDS Advertisement – Isaac Julien
Déjà Vu: AIDS and Historical Perspective – Colman Jones
Second Generation, Once Removed – Kaspar Saxena
Sally's Beauty Spot – Helen Lee
Lesley Chan – Unfinished
Brian, Tim and Darian – Pam Davenport
The Great AZT Debate – Michael Balser
Fuck Positive Women – Allyson Mitchell
Fuck Positive Women – Dr. Joseph Sonnabend
The Great AZT Debate – Jessica Whitbread
Video Re/View – John Greyson
Enough is Enough – Peggy Gale
Voices of Positive Women – Gabriella Micallef
Bolo! Bolo! – Darien Taylor
AIDS: A Family Affair – Ian Rashid
The Medicine Show – Steve Walker
The Executor – James MacSwain
anOther Love Story: Women and AIDS – James MacSwain
The Colour of Immunity – Gabriella Micallef
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