>'the accusation that an HIV infected person
>deliberately sought to infect others through
>anonymous sex is one of the most common tropes
>of the epidemic. The rumour that Foucault had
>gone to American bathhouses to deliberately
>spread HIV should be seen for what it is: a
>commonplace of the demonisation of people with
>HIV and an iteration of the standard myths of
>the malevolent importation of HIV/AIDS.'
Letter to The Times Literary Supplement (unpublished)
© February 2002 Clare O'Farrell
http://www.michel-foucault.com/tls.html