MOTHER ELLE BARBARA'S AIDS VOGUE BALL 2022

The storming of the 5th International AIDS Conference held in Montreal in June 1989 brought some of the work and demands of people living with HIV and AIDS to the front and center of the political agenda, as hundreds of people broke through security and took the microphone from then Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Until then, the conference was a members-only event, mainly catered for the AIDS establishment, and the narrative power, in the hands of outlets who framed the story based on "abstractions" presented by power players of the medical-industrial complex.

More often than not, the particular experiences and struggles of people living with HIV/AIDS get left out of the conversation; something activists in the late 1980s were quick to denounce, due to the insurmountable silencing and gaslighting they were facing. Still today, not enough focus is put towards Black and Indigenous community outreach, thus resuting in a lot of ignorance and misinformation about HIV in those communities. Unlike other sexually transmitted illnesses, people living with HIV can still be convicted of serious criminal offences for not disclosing their HIV status, even when there is no risk of transmission.

Elle Barbara and House of Barbara in collaboration with Ballroom 4 Community & ASTTeQ present a Ball to commemorate the watershed events of 1989.


OTA BIZARRE - 1 TROPHY / $1000

HIV is for the most part transmitted via unprotected sex and by sharing drug injection equipment. On the other hand, harm reduction is a realistic approach seeking to reduce the harms associated with sex and/or substance use, without requiring people to abstain.

Bring it as a used harm reduction object, whether it’s for drug use or safer sex!


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