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Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida (also known as PCPV and Proyecto) was an HIV-prevention agency located in the Mission District of San Francisco that provided community based healthcare for the Latino and LGBT communities. It could be said that the three interrelated components which distinguished its unique contributions to the LGBT organization and AIDS advocacy effort were commitment to multi-gender organizing, sex positive programming, and principles of harm reduction. Operated from 1993 to 2005, the agency merged from the organization CURAS (Community Responding to AIDS/SIDA) and targeted those under-served by existing HIV prevention resources. PCPV was committed to new forms of community building. They promoted health education by addressing differences in age, language, class, immigrant status, and gender. Their dynamic approach to community engagement, education, and outreach was led by Paulo Freire, the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies Birmingham School, ACT-UP and ''El movimiento de liberación gay'' based in Mexico City. PCPV's approach, programming, and materials were characterized by multilingualism, neologism, bold social marketing, and enacting cultural fluency.〔Rodríguez, Juana María. ''Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces''. Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 2003.〕 Organized as a constellation of community agents committed to creative care-taking and activist intervention, PCPV served as a springboard for many notable Latino/a artists, activists, academics, and allies. The distinctive tone of its mission statement, drafted by Chicano playwright Ricardo Bracho, captures the multi-lingual flavor and political urgency of the group's radical vision: "Proyecto ContraSIDA is coming to you--you joto, you macha, you vestigial, you queer, you femme, you girls and boys and boygirls and girlboys de ambiente, con la fé and fearlessness that we can combat AIDS, determine our own destinos, and love ourselves and each other con dignidad, humor, y Luria."〔Rodriguez, Juana María. ''Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces''. Sexual Cultures. New York: New York University Press, 2003, 50.〕 The way in which Rodriguez shows that Proyecto does this is by first recognizing the fact that we as humans are complex, not necessarily boiled down to binaries (man, woman) (white, black) (straight, gay) but as Proyecto stated in its mission statement. ==Critical Attention== PCPV's model of innovative community engagement attracted the attention of several scholars, many of whom had formal and informal ties with the organization. University of California, Berkeley professor, Juana María Rodríguez devotes a chapter of her book ''Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces''〔 to the organization, focusing on its inventive use of linguistic and visual practices, and delineating how PCPV organizing practices challenged existing identity-based models of community engagement. Oral historian Horacio Roque Ramirez documents the lives of numerous members of PCPV and outlines the related cultural and social movements that contributed to its formation in his book, ''Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s''.〔Roque-Ramirez, Horacio N. Queer Latino San Francisco: An Oral History, 1960s-1990s. S.l.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.〕 Several healthcare advocates also noted the importance of the PCPV’s approach to community well-being and HIV prevention, stressing the impact of its "bottom-up" approach, and its ability to reach and serve marginalized communities.〔Ochoa Camacho, Ariana, Yep, Gust A., Gomez, Prado Y., and Velez, Elissa. “El Poder Y La Fuerza de La Pasión: Toward a Model of HIV/AIDS Education and Service Delivery from the ‘Bottom-Up.’” In Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power, edited by Heather Zoller and Mohan J. Dutta. Routledge, 2011.〕〔Zoller, Heather, and Mohan J. Dutta. Emerging Perspectives in Health Communication: Meaning, Culture, and Power. Routledge, 2011.〕〔Nemoto, Tooru, Don Operario, J. Keatley, and David Villegas. "Social context of HIV risk behaviours among male-to-female transgenders of colour." AIDS care 16, no. 6 (2004): 724-735.〕 After PCPV closed, several of its staff and volunteers went on to create "El/La Para Translatinas"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=El/La Para TransLatinas )〕 an organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for transgender Latinos. The creation of PCPV caused a chain reaction in the community, as we see above. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Proyecto ContraSIDA por Vida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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