Camp, Cancer, AIDS—Susan Sontag and Queer Culture

The Gay Museum is using this publication as an opportunity to spark a conversation about Susan Sontag, her notes on camp, and her reflections on cancer and AIDS.

Marc Siegel is a professor of film studies at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. His research focuses on issues in queer studies and experimental film. His book *A Gossip of Images* will be published shortly by Duke University Press. His most recent publications include the bilingual volume he edited, *What’s Underground About Marshmallows? Texts by and about Jack Smith” (2026), as well as the anthology “Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia” (2024). He is a member of the Berlin-based artists’ collective CHEAP and the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics (PJA).

Birgit Bosold has been a member of the board of the Gay Museum since 2006 and has curated many successful and influential exhibitions there, most recently: “Susan Sontag—Seeing and Being Seen”

• with Kristina Jaspers

Jan Künemund is a freelance film journalist and curator and has been responsible for press and public relations at the Gay Museum since 2023.