Bruce Brown interviewed by Martyn Goddard

Bruce Brown, an AIDS activist and HIV positive man describes his background & education; awareness of AIDS as a disease; early information regarding safe sex practice; AIDS education; contagion fears; quarantine of hospital patients; discrimination; gay immigration to Australia; Sydney gay scene; decision not to take HIV test; deliberate HIV infection accusation; gay activism; testing HIV positive; AZT dosages & side effects; drug availability; ACT UP formation & demonstrations; government treatments access issue; Australian response to AIDS epidemic; fighting the system; anger; ACT UP action at National Conference on AIDS, Canberra; Brian Howe & health bureaucracy; reforms to drug evaluation system; ANCA Working Group Report into the availability of HIV/AIDS drugs (McDonald report); Canberra Manifesto; Baume Inquiry; D-Day campaign; phone tapping; ACT UP actions at Parliament House, Canberra. • 1992 July 7 • 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 163 min.)