About Cindy Patton Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar who has written extensively about social and political dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. She is currently Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver. Books by Cindy Patton L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand A Queer Film Classic by (author) Cindy Patton series edited by Thomas Waugh & Matthew Hays