ABSTRACT
While an abundance of research has examined sexuality and HIV/AIDS within a discursive or representational frame (Treichler, 1987; Patton, 1990), there has been very little focus on the materiality of life with HIV/AIDS for non-heteronormative subjects (Tucker, 2009a). By materiality, I refer here to those issues of political economy ‘that surround, limit and give opportunity to different [non-heteronormative] communities’ (Tucker, 2009a, p. 13), including discrimination, spatial segregation and inequalities in access to education and health services (Ross, 2005). In many parts of Africa, for instance, the health needs of nonheteronormative patients remain largely silenced and misrepresented (Johnson, 2007). In many parts of the world, particularly those experiencing concentrated epidemics, gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM) endure widespread stigma, discrimination and constrained access to primary HIV care (Fay et al., 2011; Beyrer et al., 2012).
