Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay re-examines the often undervalued role that the American graphic novel played for members within the LBGT community during the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s. Particular focus is placed on the way in which graphic novelists responded to socially conservative leaders who seized medical language to pathologize homosexuality for the purpose of expediting the passage of regressive legislation. Both David Wojnarowicz’s 7 Miles a Second and the interconnected panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt addressed this process of systematic dehumanisation and sought to redeem a nation that was otherwise unwilling to confront the magnitude of what it had lost.
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