Alexandra Wolf
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Alexandra Wolf is an American woman who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1985.[1][2][3] Coverage of her diagnosis described her as an early instance of a heterosexual woman being infected.
Wolf described how she learned her diagnosis in an article in Psychological Perspectives.[4] She compared her anxiety to how Captain Kirk felt when he was trapped in timewarp in the Star Trek episode The Tholian Web.
Wolf, who was in her thirties, described acquiring AIDS during a brief heterosexual liaison with a bisexual man.[1][2][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lynn Simross (1987-08-16). "AIDS : The Doctors : They're Not Saying 'No' to Alternate Remedies". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20160918042523/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-08-16/news/vw-1874_1_aids-research/2. Retrieved 2015-07-15. "Alexandra Wolf, who lives in Hollywood, was diagnosed with ARC in September, 1985, and has put together her own healing program."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A Matter of Life and Death". LA Weekly. 1998-11-18. Archived from the original on 2021-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20211115014147/https://www.laweekly.com/a-matter-of-life-and-death/. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
- ↑ Martha Smilgis (1987-02-16). "The Big Chill: Fear of AIDS". Time magazine. Archived from the original on 2021-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20211115014751/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,963537-4,00.html. Retrieved 2021-11-14. "After four encounters, he confessed he was a bisexual whose previous lover had died from an AIDS-related cancer. Ten months later, tests confirmed that Wolf had the live virus in her bloodstream."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alexandra Wolf (1994). Into another Universe with the U.S.S. Enterprise. Psychological Perspectives. p. 76-87. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00332929408404820. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332929408404820?journalCode=upyp20#.VaSDPvmBpGI. Retrieved 2015-07-14.
