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Heterosexuality

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Images from the collections

Images about Heterosexuality

14 images from works
  • A heterosexual couple, a gay couple, and a lesbian couple with a latex glove, condom and lubricant representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Charlie Pizzarello, 1993.
  • A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A gay couple, a heterosexual couple and a lesbian couple with a latex glove, condom and lubricant representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Charlie Pizzarello, 1993.
  • Two male gay couples and two heterosexual couples embrace representing safe sex and AIDS; advertisment about information on HIV/AIDS by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Lithograph by Warwick May.
  • A world map with figures and statistics highlighting the numbers of those with the HIV virus; with the message that over 50% of heterosexual HIV transmission in Norway occurs abroad; an advertisement by The Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Colour lithograph by , ca. 1995.
  • How far will you go before you mention condoms? : this far? / Health Education Authority.
  • A lesbian couple, a gay couple and a heterosexual couple all holding condoms and lubricant and gloves representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Colour lithograph by Charlie Pizzarello, 1993.
  • A blond woman kisses the side of the face of a man she wraps her arms around while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
  • A man in a white vest and jeans with his arms folded against a hazy grey background and the words in German: "My brother is heterosexual. I am proud of him"; an anti-AIDS poster by Stefan Thiel. Lithograph.
  • How many people did you say you'd slept with? : why, just the one! / J.P. Smith.
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Works from the collections

38 works

    • Books

    The male in the head : young people, heterosexuality and power / by Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglu, Sue Sharpe, Rachel Thomson.

    | Date: 1998
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A blond woman kisses the side of the face of a man she wraps her arms around while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674551i
    • Books

    A history of bisexuality / Steven Angelides.

    Angelides, Steven. | Date: [2001], ©2001
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A man with a tattoo puts his arms around a woman while holding a condom in a packet bearing the logo 'ok'; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the l'Aide Suisse contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674557i
    • Books

    Intercourse.

    | Date: [1969]
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Related topics

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Sexual Behavior
Safe Sex
Condoms
Homosexuality
Gay men
Sexuality
Sex
Lesbians
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