Abstract
Based on fieldwork conducted since the early 1990s, Action=Vie: A History of AIDS Activism and Gay Politics in France is an updated, extended translation of the book published in French in 2005, where the sociologist Christophe Broqua sheds light on the interplay between the politics of AIDS and homosexuality in France's leading AIDS activism organisation. Act Up-Paris was founded in 1989 and rose to prominence in the wake of the 1992 “tainted blood scandal”—when it was disclosed that HIV-infected blood had been used for transfusion to haemophiliacs. While initially perceived as modelled on a US-imported form of identity-based activism that “would not work” in France, Act Up-Paris not only became a major player in the field of AIDS activism in France, but has outlived most of its sister Act Ups worldwide.
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