This poster was adapted from How to Have Sex in an Epidemic (1983), the first safe sex guide written by and for gay men who were active in the gay circuit during the AIDS crisis. The pamphlet was written by two PWAs, Michael Callen, a musician, and Richard Berkowitz, a sex worker deeply affected by the emerging crisis, with editorial supervision from Richard Dworkin, Callen’s boyfriend, and Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, a specialist in sexually transmitted diseases whose practice focused on gay men’s sexual health. It promoted medically informed risk reduction without moralizing. In particular, it advocated communication, sobriety, and affection as strategies for safer sex, offering a radical alternative to abstinence or shame.