Gray Sattler and Robert M. Ariss papers, ca. 1911-1994

MLMSS 8911/Boxes 1-17
MLMSS 8911/Boxes 18X-21X

fonds

ca. 1911-1994

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Objects, Cartographic Materials, Clippings, Ephemera, Photographs, Posters

411734

3.63 metres of textual and graphic material (17 boxes, 4 outsize boxes)
41 sound cassettes

Robert Ariss was the Senior Research Assistant at the National Centre for HIV Social Research, School of Behavioural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. He served on many AIDS advisory bodies and organizations, including the Australian National Council on AIDS; the AIDS Council of New South Wales; the National People Living with AIDS Coalition; and People Living with AIDS (N.S.W.). In 1993 he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, for his doctoral thesis, Against death: the Sydney gay community responds to AIDS. He began writing a book based on his doctoral thesis, and had almost completed the final draft when he died on 9 May 1994 from AIDS-related complications. Gary W. Dowsett finished editing the manuscript, and the book, titled Against death: the practice of living with AIDS, was published in 1997.

Gray Sattler was awarded a Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and Sociology from the University of New South Wales in 1976. Since the late 1980s he has worked extensively in the area of HIV and AIDS policy, both in Australia and overseas. Sattler’s employment includes Policy Analyst, AIDS and Infectious Diseases Branch, NSW Health; Manager, Programme Planning, Drug Treatment Services in NSW Health; Programme Officer at AHRN, Asian Harm Reduction Network; Harm Reduction Technical Officer, Western Pacific Regional Office, WHO; Regional Adviser, HIV and AIDS at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific; Regional HIV Adviser, Indonesia and PNG at UNDOC; Officer-in-Charge at UNDOC.

References:

http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/aidsbkrv/No52.html#935 (accessed 8 April 2013)

http://id.linkedin.com/pub/gray-sattler/11/1a3/ab7 (accessed 3 April 2013)

Gray Sattler and Robert M. Ariss papers, mainly concerning HIV and AIDs research and campaigns, and some personal papers. The collection includes correspondence; minutes and agendas; reports; newsletters; periodicals; newscuttings; notes; pamphlets; leaflets; photocopies; transcripts of interviews; maps; printed music; badges; T-shirts; sound recordings of meetings and conferences; and posters concerning safe sex and safe drug use; ca. 1911-1994

BOX 1
Folder 1--7
Papers and ephemera relating to HIV and AIDS research, including community research initiatives, 1989-1990; Wollongong social demographics and photocopies of newspaper clippings; research by the NH&MRC Special Unit in AIDS epidemiology and Clinical Research; the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, 1990; Photocopies of newspaper clippings re the Grim Reaper advertising campaign 1987; Research papers re sexual practices and risk assessment, 1988-1992; Newsletters and correspondence of The Gay and Lesbian Immigration Task Force, 1988-1992

BOX 2
Folders 1-14
Papers and ephemera relating to HIV and AIDS research, including copies of correspondence sent and received by Ariss, 1988-1993; Albion Street (AIDS) Centre; AIDS and legal issues, 1988-1992; hospitals and health services; National centre for HIV social research; women and AIDS; arts associations; Wollongong Project Living with Aids; Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, 1990; newscuttings, 1988-1990; Research papers and ACON Committee correspondence regarding testing, 1989-1990

BOX 3 – RESTRICTED
Folders 1-5
Survey information and case studies for SAPA [Social Aspects of the Prevention of AIDS], Macquarie University; 1986-1992; Interview transcripts, 1988-1992
Folders 6-9
Correspondence relating to AIDS and discrimination cases, 1989; Material relating to alternative therapies, 1988-1990; Personal immigration records i.e. application forms, visas and statuary declarations, 1988-1990

BOX 4
Folders 1-8
Papers and ephemera relating to HIV and AIDS research, including the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, 1988-1992; Australian Buyers Club 1990; zidovudine (AZT), 1988-1991; Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) International Working Group, 1990-1991; AFAO National Treatments Project,1989-1992; AIDS and anthropology research group, 1989-1992; National PLWA Coalition (NSW), 1989-1992; health care workers and AIDS, 1989;

BOX 5
Folders 1-2
Gray Sattler’s personal papers and ephemera, including cards received; 1 colour photograph; printed maps
Robert Ariss’s personal papers and ephemera, including cards and postcards received by Ariss, newscuttings, flyers and theatre programs, 1982-1992; the National Secondary Students Conference, 1975; printed music, ca. 1911-1933, including If we come back home, words by Will Baker, music by Francis Mack, arranged by E. H. Tyrrell, Tempe, N.S.W.: W. G. Baker, ca. 1916; March of all nations: Freedom march, by Harry Appel, Sydney: Albert's, 1914.

BOX 6
Papers, printed material and ephemera concerning HIV and AIDS, including clinical trials and therapies: passive immunotherapy, DDI, (VIDEX), GLQ223, AZT; the Social Aspects of the Prevention of AIDS research project undertaken by the AIDS Council of N.S.W. and Macquarie University; People Living With AIDS [PLWA]; and journals including copies of Positive Living, 1991-1992 [incomplete]; 1987-1992

BOX 7
1 ring-binder folder of AIDS Council of New South Wales committee meeting minutes and agendas, May 1989- August 1990; 1 ring-binder folder of Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations guidelines and reports, 1989-1991; 1 ring-binder folder of AFAO committee meeting monthly updates, photocopies of reports, agendas and discussion papers, 1990

BOX 8
1 ring-binder folder containing information brochures, newsletters, leaflets and photocopies of reports relating to group projects in Europe, Africa and Madrid, 1998; 1 ring-binder folder of minutes of the National PLWA Coalition, 1990; 1 folder of minutes of the National PLWA Coalition, 1991-1992; 1 ring-binder folder containing a photocopied typescript of Surviving and thriving with AIDS: collected wisdom, Michael Callen, editor, 1988

BOX 9
1 manila folder of papers relating to Talkabout editorial group, including minutes, etc., 1993-1994; 1 ring-binder folder of papers and ephemera, including flyers, copies of reports, media releases, etc., concerning ACT-UP Sydney, New York, San Francisco and Montreal, 1989-1990; 1 ring-binder folder of papers, including minutes, copies of correspondence, etc., concerning the Australian National Council on AIDS, 1991

BOX 10
1 ring-binder folder of papers, including minutes and reports, concerning the AIDS Council Committee, 1988-1989; 1 ring-binder folder of papers, including notes, photocopies of journal articles and reports etc., concerning AIDS treatments, AmFAR, Project Inform, ACON treatment policy, ACT-UP treatment agenda, 1988-1990

BOX 11
1 ring-binder folder of papers, including correspondence, minutes and agendas, concerning People Living With AIDS (N.S.W.) committee, 1988-1991

BOXES 12-15
Gray Sattler’s papers relating to employment at Telecom Australia, including brochures, training manuals, etc., 1979-1985, and notes and handouts relating to study undertaken at the University of New South Wales, 1972-1978

BOX 16-17
Printed journals including the National AIDS Bulletin, 1988-1992; Gay Left, 1976-1979; Outrage, February 1986- February 1987 [incomplete]; Sydney’s Star Observer, ca. 1989

BOX 18X
Ephemera, including cards, condom packages, badges and match folders, relating to the promotion of safe sex and safe drug use, ca. 1986-1990

BOXES 19X, 20X, 21X
29 T-shirts relating to the promotion of safe sex and safe drug use, ca. 1988-1990

71 posters promoting gay support groups, and safe sex and safe drug use, produced by various organisations including the AIDS Council of New South Wales and the Health Education Authority

SOUND RECORDINGS
41 audio cassettes relating to meetings and conferences on HIV and AIDS, ca. 1989-1992
(Call Number MLOH 711)

Item 001 PLWA conference, tape 1, 11 February 1989
Item 002 PLWA conference, tape 3, 11 February 1989
Item 003 PLWA conference, tape 4, 11-12 February 1989
Item 004 PLWA conference, tape 5, 12 February 1989
Item 005 PLWA conference, tape 6, 12 February 1989
Item 006 Gaywaves PLWA meeting, 29 March 1990
Item 007 Madrid conference, opening plenary, 24 May 1990
Item 008 Madrid conference, discrimination workshop: developing countries, 24 May 1990
Item 009 Madrid conference, self-help workshops, ACT-UP, Vancouver PWA, PLWA (N.S.W.), no date
Item 010 Madrid conference, Frontliners, UK; ACT-UP, New York, 25 May, 1990
Item 011 Madrid conference, International Networking Group, final plenary, 26-27 May, 1990
Item 012 Speaking Across Borders, ACT-UP, San Francisco, 17 June 1990
Item 013 Sixth International Community Outreach session, treatment, research, clinical trials, 22-23 June 1990
Item 014 Sixth International Community Outreach session, political implications of HIV, 22-23 June 1990
Item 015 Sixth International Community Outreach session, political implications of HIV, 22-23 June 1990
Item 016 Project Inform, information night, 27 June 1990
Item 017 Project Inform, information night, part 2, 27 June 1990
Item 018 Beyond the National Strategy, what is the national strategy, Howe, Tarantola, Whittaker, Harbour, tape 1, 9-11 August 1990
Item 019 Beyond the National Strategy, trials and tribulations, Hoth, Weller, Cooper, Abrams, Ariss, tape 10, 9-11 August 1990
Item 020 Beyond the National Strategy, media as partners, tape 13, 9-11 August 1990
Item 021 Beyond the National Strategy, closing plenary, select representatives, tape 18, 9-11 August 1990
Item 022 IV national conference, opening plenary, 9 August 1990
Item 023 Living Well III, opening plenary, Keith Harbour, Polkinghorn, Nick Foster, Ross Duffin, Filamena, Jenny, 24 November 1990
Item 024 Living Well III, treatments and trials, Rolf Petherbridge, Dennis Rhodes, 24 November, 1990
Item 025 Living Well III, treatment plenary, Martin Delaney, project information, 25 November, 1990
Item 026 Gary Wotherspoon, interview on City on the Plain, 11 December 1990
Item 027 Simon Watney, 13 February 1991
Item 028 Simon Watney, no date
Item 029 VII International Conference on AIDS: social and economic impact of AIDS, Norse, Africa; Sager, Netherlands; Muriaka?, Zaire; Patterson; Katoff, long term survivors; Schellekens; Florence, 16-21 June 1991
Item 030 VII International Conference on AIDS: Jonathan Mann, women and AIDS, ACT-UP New York; Collier, Bodsworth, Lietzav, Florence, 17-18 June 1991
Item 031 VII International Conference on AIDS: Ankrah, Uganda; Kallings, WHO, Florence, 19 June 1991
Item 032 VII International Conference on AIDS, community based care, Florence, 19 June 1991
Item 033 VII International Conference on AIDS: AIDS society for ASIA and Pacific; media and information; 20 June 1991
Item 034 VII International Conference on AIDS: commentaries: basic science, Gluckman; clinical science & trials, Dormont; Epidemiology and prevention, Mann; social and behavioural science, Guzzanti
Item 035 VII International Conference on AIDS: closing ceremony, Chieco-Bianchi; Mother Teresa, Broder, Volberding, Morales, Makajima, Andreotti, Essex, Rossi
Item 036 PLWA ISC: press conference, 30 June 1991
Item 037 World AIDS Day, news and artist capsules, national AIDS education campaign, 1 December 1991
Item 038 Mathew B, Sydney, 6 May 1992
Item 039 Andrew L, Annandale, 9 May 1992
Item 040 PLWA: ACON emergency meeting on drugs and trials, no date
Item 041 CA?, no date

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