Bisexuals help create the standards for safer sex : San Francisco, 1981-1987

R. Lawrence, C. Queen

Although the "San Francisco model" of AIDS/HIV education, including definitions of and teaching modalities for safer sex, is popularly associated with San Francisco's gay community, many bisexuals were instrumental in defining, promoting and teaching safer sex strategies during the early years of the epidemic, notably 1981 through 1987. This paper seeks to restore bisexual sex educators, activists, sex workers, and other concerned community members to their earned position as instrumental to the community-based struggle to prevent AIDS.