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Article: Repetition and difference: Julia Bryan-Wilson on LTTR.
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- Artforum International
- Article date:
- June 22, 2006
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"IT IS OUR PROMISCUITY that will save us," AIDS activist and art theorist Douglas Crimp asserted in 1988, defying the media's brutal vilification of gay sex--in which a devastating health crisis was portrayed as punishment for pleasure--by arguing that gay men's sexual flexibility would help them adapt to safer sex. While the AIDS crisis continues, albeit cushioned for some by the effects of life-extending drugs, it is nevertheless difficult to render Crimp's claim intelligible today. The value of promiscuity considered literally, as Crimp did, seems impossible to imagine given the profound conservatism of much of the contemporary gay and lesbian movement. (The terms of ...
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... ... Moeller, andJon Wellinghoff. New York Independent System Operator ... February 5, 2007, the New York Independent System Operator ... transmission rights (LTTRs) in New York. In this order, the Commission ... modification. 2. Under NYISO's LTTR Proposal, as modified pursuant ...
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