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In 1990, the avant-garde musician Diamanda Galas performed Plague Mass, a culmination of her work dedicated to the victims of the AIDS epidemic.

Galas ' performance consisted of covering her body in cattle blood and reinterpreting biblical texts and classic literature ; she said it was a protest against what she saw as the ignorance and condemnation towards people with AIDS from religious and political groups.