Who invented Safe Sex?

Courtesy That Other Paper  Tue, 02/26/2008 - 8:24am

This doc, Sex Positive, says it was Richard Berkowitz, a former gay sex worker and activist during the early days of the AIDS crisis.

He was vilified at the time and is mostly forgotten now, but Berkowitz played a big part in getting gays (and eventually others) to realize that “safe sex” didn’t mean “no sex.” Screening at SXSW on March 8, 10, and 14.

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