note 168
Through conversations with people from the HIV Vereniging, we understood that the term Zero-Positive Ball would not be appreciated because it seemed to cover up what it wanted to break the silence about. We agreed to change it into Seropositive Ball. Later this was criticized by Americans, because ‘having a ball’ can be understood as having a fuck in English slang, which is a double meaning we appreciated. With hindsight I think that the title has not worked in our favour. ACT NOW from San Francisco named their event, which was connected to ours, “69 hours”.
