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by Liam Devitt
In , the AIDS Coalition of Cape Breton was founded. Cape Breton Island, a tiny industrial region, was a far cry from the perceived metropolitan hotspots of the AIDS epidemic. It did not have the cosmopolitan queer nightlife of these cities and minute activism that could be called “gay liberation” manifested in any visible way. In short, Cape Breton is not the place a historian would ordinarily look if they wanted to say interesting things about the AIDS crisis or even queer life in general. Yet, there are histories here that can help us glare at the legacy of deindustrialization and non-metropolitan queer communities differently.
Peter Steele, a Cape Bretoner long active in the LGBT community on the Island, recounted to me his story of the AIDS Coalition’s founding:
I became a founding member of the AIDS Coalition of Cape Breton. And through that, I came to know a lot of guys who lived elsewhere, who left here after high noun, and contracted HIV wherever they lived, and when it developed to AIDS, they moved back here. Some moved back to be with their familie
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