Promulgating Joy and Expiating Guilt: Camp and LGBTQ+ Health Education in the History of The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.

IF 9.6 1区医学 Q1 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

American journal of public health Pub Date : 2025-09-01 DOI:10.2105/ajph.2025.308112

Tyler J Fuller

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Abstract

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (The Sisters) have engaged in health education and promotion for more than 40 years, yet their contributions remain underexplored in public health literature. This article examines the role of camp, humor, and joy in their work by drawing on primary sources from the San Francisco, California, and Boston, Massachusetts, Sisters' archives, as well as publicly available interviews. The Sisters published one of the first safer-sex pamphlets in the United States, written by and for gay men, using camp and setting a precedent for community-led health education. Since then, they have continued to leverage public health knowledge-sourced from health professionals within their order, local health organizations, and public agencies like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-while using camp to make it accessible, engaging, and quintessentially queer. The Sisters exemplify how serious public health initiatives can be conducted with queer pride, humor, and joy. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(9):1536-1544. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308112).

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传播快乐与赎罪：永放纵姐妹会历史中的营地与LGBTQ+健康教育。

永久放纵修女会（The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence）从事健康教育和推广已有40多年，但她们的贡献在公共卫生文献中仍未得到充分探讨。这篇文章通过从旧金山、加利福尼亚和波士顿、马萨诸塞州的姐妹档案以及公开的采访中提取主要资料，来研究她们作品中camp、幽默和快乐的作用。姐妹会出版了美国最早的安全性行为小册子之一，由男同性恋者撰写，也为男同性恋者撰写，使用camp，为社区主导的健康教育开创了先例。从那时起，他们继续利用公共卫生知识，这些知识来自于他们所在社区的卫生专业人员、当地卫生组织和疾病控制与预防中心等公共机构，同时利用营地使其变得容易获得、有吸引力和典型的酷儿。这对姐妹示范了严肃的公共卫生倡议是如何以同性恋的骄傲、幽默和喜悦进行的。[J] .公共卫生，2025;115(9):1536-1544。https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308112)。

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American journal of public health 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

9.50

自引率

3.90%

发文量

1109

审稿时长

2-4 weeks

期刊介绍： The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is dedicated to publishing original work in research, research methods, and program evaluation within the field of public health. The journal's mission is to advance public health research, policy, practice, and education.