PULLMAN,Wash. – Matthew Jeffries, director of Washington State Universitys Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center, and will present “Not all video games and the brat pack: AIDS stigma from the 1980s to the digital age” as a common reading lecture at 5 p.m. Tues.,Sept. 5, in CUE 203. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Jeffries said that author Ernest Cline paints a rosy image of the 1980s in alert Player One, or ” his fiction novel that is this year’s WSU common reading book for first-year and other students.
HIV and AIDS plagued that era,particularly the LGBTQ community, he explained. Stigmas ... » More ...
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