@article{oai:teapot.lib.ocha.ac.jp:00039475, author = {竹田, 恵子 and TAKEDA, Keiko}, journal = {人間文化創成科学論叢}, month = {Mar}, note = {application/pdf, 紀要論文, This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS and the “ male homosexual ” were represented by various Japanese media including interviews and autobiographies from the 1980s to the first half of 1990s and relates this to Teiji Furuhashi (1960-1995)’s discourse. Teiji Furuhashi, played a principal role in the creation of S/N ― an influential masterpiece of contemporary performance art ― , after he informed his friends about his HIV-positive status in October 1992. Representations of HIV/AIDS in the media during the 1980s mostly concerned women, although “ male homosexuals ” were, nevertheless, supposed to be a “ risk group”. The mainstream discourse also discriminated between those “guiltlessly” infected by blood products and those infected by sexual transmission, including “male homosexuals”. “Male homosexuals” in gay magazines presented HIV/AIDS as their own problem and stressed that they should stop being promiscuous. They also thought that they could not reveal being homosexual, being HIV-positive or having AIDS and tried to pass for “normal” (i.e. straight and HIV-negative) in general social contexts. In the 1990s, a s\ mall number of “male homosexuals” came out as being HIV-positive or having AIDS in the mass media. Similar to Furuhashi in S/N, they claimed that the problems posed by HIV/AIDS and the discriminatory treatment or erasure of “male homosexuals” were not created by themselves but by Japanese society. However, Furuhashi emphasized his “ artist” identity, rather than that of “male homosexual ” or “ HIV-positive”. He intended to promote social change not by simply revealing his sexual and/or HIV-positive identity, but by creating his “art”.}, pages = {45--53}, title = {日本におけるHIV/AIDSの言説と古橋悌二の〈手紙〉}, volume = {12}, year = {2010} }