Phil Tiemeyer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520274761
- eISBN:
- 9780520955301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274761.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter 7 traces the AIDS crisis into the 1990s. It begins with the 1987 release of Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On and his portrayal of Dugas as the origin of the epidemic in America. My ...
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Chapter 7 traces the AIDS crisis into the 1990s. It begins with the 1987 release of Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On and his portrayal of Dugas as the origin of the epidemic in America. My analysis confirms long-standing assertions that Gäetan Dugas was not the first American with AIDS. Shilts’s editor has confirmed that Shilts manipulated the “Patient Zero” narrative to garner media publicity. Via this publicity, flight attendants were now implicated in the larger social and political battles over AIDS, gay sexual practices, and workplace rights. Over time, the airlines ultimately helped to defuse this hysteria. In 1988 United Airlines stopped grounding flight attendants with AIDS, and, by 1993, American Airlines had become the United States’ first self-proclaimed “gay-friendly” airline.Less
Chapter 7 traces the AIDS crisis into the 1990s. It begins with the 1987 release of Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On and his portrayal of Dugas as the origin of the epidemic in America. My analysis confirms long-standing assertions that Gäetan Dugas was not the first American with AIDS. Shilts’s editor has confirmed that Shilts manipulated the “Patient Zero” narrative to garner media publicity. Via this publicity, flight attendants were now implicated in the larger social and political battles over AIDS, gay sexual practices, and workplace rights. Over time, the airlines ultimately helped to defuse this hysteria. In 1988 United Airlines stopped grounding flight attendants with AIDS, and, by 1993, American Airlines had become the United States’ first self-proclaimed “gay-friendly” airline.
Charles B. Strozier
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231158985
- eISBN:
- 9780231529921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231158985.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter retraces the events of September 11, 2001, beginning with American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into World Trade Center 1 and 2, respectively, one after the ...
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This chapter retraces the events of September 11, 2001, beginning with American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into World Trade Center 1 and 2, respectively, one after the other. American Airlines Flight 77 then crashed into the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. New York City burned for the next 100 days. World Trade Center 7 also collapsed. Less than three hours later, President George W. Bush spoke to the nation from the Oval Office. On September 25, letters sent to a number of media outfits sparked fears of biological warfare in the wake of 9/11. On October 7, the war in Afghanistan, dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, began. On November 16, Osama Bin Laden and his key followers escaped from their hideout as the United States began to bomb Tora Bora. On December 20, 100 days after 9/11, Robert Calise, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department, announced that the fires at Ground Zero were officially considered extinguished.Less
This chapter retraces the events of September 11, 2001, beginning with American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 crashing into World Trade Center 1 and 2, respectively, one after the other. American Airlines Flight 77 then crashed into the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. New York City burned for the next 100 days. World Trade Center 7 also collapsed. Less than three hours later, President George W. Bush spoke to the nation from the Oval Office. On September 25, letters sent to a number of media outfits sparked fears of biological warfare in the wake of 9/11. On October 7, the war in Afghanistan, dubbed Operation Enduring Freedom, began. On November 16, Osama Bin Laden and his key followers escaped from their hideout as the United States began to bomb Tora Bora. On December 20, 100 days after 9/11, Robert Calise, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department, announced that the fires at Ground Zero were officially considered extinguished.
