The impact of HIV and AIDS on American politics and culture will be the topic of a presentation titled "AIDS at 20: A Political History" on April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in the Eaton Humanities Building, room 1B50, at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The lecture will be given by Steve Sanders, an administrator and political scientist at Indiana University in Bloomington. Sanders uses slides and video clips to illuminate the political history of HIV/AIDS as a feature of American life and a global epidemic.
Bruce Smail, director of CU-Boulder's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, said Sanders' presentation creates opportunities to discuss HIV/AIDS within the GLBT community.
"Sanders' activism and leadership provides a unique perspective to examine government policies toward the GLBT community and the ways HIV/AIDS has disproportionately impacted people of color and low-income communities," Smail said.
Sanders writes and teaches on gay and lesbian political and legal issues, and maintains the Web site gaypoliticsandlaw.com. He is currently chairperson of the LGBT caucus of the American Political Science Association. He also is active with the Human Rights Campaign, serves on the board of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union and was a member of the platform committee for the 2000 Democratic National Convention.Ìý
At Indiana University, he chaired a task force that worked successfully for the approval of domestic partner benefits.
Sanders has spoken or lectured on AIDS, same-sex marriage and other gay and lesbian legal and political issues at a number of universities and organizations, including the University of Louisville, Illinois State University, Indiana State University, the American Political Science Association, the Western Political Science Association and the law schools of Columbia, Duke, the University of Oregon and Valparaiso University.Ìý
He also was a presenter at the Ryan White National Youth Conference in Washington, D.C., in February.
Sander's talk is sponsored by the GLBT Resource Center, the Women's Studies Program, the department of Housing, Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center, the Wardenburg Sexual Health Education Program, the LGBT Studies Certificate Program and United Ministries in Higher Education.
For more information, call Smail at (303) 492-2966.