Oral history database – Transnational Aids Activism

Interview with Ada Moznich

Ada Moznich is an activist with Network Persone Sieropositive (NPS) and Ragazzi della Panchina, a group dedicated to harm reduction and advocacy for drug users and HIV-positive people.

Giuseppe (Beppe) Ramina was born in Forli in 1951. He was an activist in the groups Lotta Continua, Collettivo Frocialista, and il Cassero di Porta Saragozza and has served as president of Arcigay nazionale and Lega Italiana per la Lotta…

Interview with Corinna Rinaldi

Corinna Rinaldi, who is also an activist in militant feminist movements, is president of the Iniziativa Donne AIDS in Bologna, which she co-founded in 1989.

Interview with Diego Scudiero

Diego Scudiero was born in Cittadella (PD) in 1960. He served as president of the “Circolo 28 giugno” between 1982 and 1985 and as an activist in LILA Bologna.

Interview with Enzo Cucco

Enzo Cucco, born in 1960, has been an activist with the queer liberation group FUORI! since 1976 as well as the Partito Radicale, for which he served as a regional councilor from 1990 to 1995.

Interview with Filippo Von Schloesser

Filippo Von Schloesser was born in Rome in 1949. He has served as the president of NADIR Onlus and as a member of the European AIDS Treatment Group.

Interview with Franco Grillini

Franco Grillini was born in Pianoro near Bologna in 1955. He was an activist in the group “Circolo 28 giugno,” co-founder and later president of Arcigay, and co-founder of Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro l’AIDS (Lila).

Interview with Ingo Michels

My way into the AIDS services is a bit unusual. I didn’t come to this part of life via the gay community, but from my work with drug users, which I got to know as part of my additional training…

Interview with Marinella Zetti

Marinella Zetti, who had previously been active in the feminist and LGBTQ+ movements, began volunteering with ASA in 1990.

Interview with Massimo Cernuschi

Massimo Cernuschi, a doctor and infectious disease specialist, began volunteering with ASA in Milan in 1985.

Interview with Panagiotis Damaskos

Παναγιώτης Δαμάσκος: Την δεκαετία του ’80 ήμουνα σε μια ηλικία που καταλάβαινα πράγματα, παρόλα αυτά δεν είχα κάποια εμπλοκή στα θέματα [του aids], εκτός από ακούσματα, ενώ από την πλευρά μου υπήρχε μια άρνηση για όλα αυτά τα θέματα για…

Interview with Pia Covre

Pia Covre was born in Milan in 1947. She is a co-founder of the Comitato per i diritti civili delle prostitute (CDCP), an early participant in LILA and TAMPEP…

Interview with Pieke Biermann

Nikos: What are your more important moments in your participation in Hydra and the sex workers’ rights movement, please? Pieke: We will need an hour to discuss all these moments! In the beginning, when Hydra was founded, I was vehemently…

Interview with Robin Gorna

Robin Gorna became an AIDS activist while at university, volunteering with the Terrence Higgins Trust, then later working at the European Commission.

Interview with Rosaria Iardino

Rosaria Iardino has been HIV-positive and involved in HIV/AIDS and healthcare activism since the mid-1980s. She founded the activist group “Coordinamento Lesbiche/AIDS,” has previously served as president of the Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli in Rome, president of the…

Interview with Tony Whitehead

NP: Please allow me to begin with some more general questions. Please provide some information about yourself, including where you were born, where you grew up, your education, and your occupation. When exactly were you born? TW: I was born…

Interview with Will Nutland

Will Nutland has been involved in activism since he was about 14. He is the co-founder of an organization called The Love Tank, which is a community interest company.