AIDS
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Gay History: August 26, 1986: Former Washington Redskins Football Player Jerry Smith Announces He Has AIDS
LGBT History: August 26, 1986: Jerry Smith, former Washington Redskins tight end, is the first celebrity to voluntarily acknowledge that…
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Gay History – August 28, 1981: The CDC Formally Recognizes AIDS As An “Epidemic”
On June 5, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published it’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), and…
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Gay History – August 13, 1998: For The First Time In 10 Years The Bay Area Reporter Prints No Obituaries For AIDS Victims
Twenty-one years ago this day August 13th, 1998 for the first time in over a decade The Bay Area Reporter…
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August 8, 1983: The Legacy of Gay AIDS Activist and “KS Poster Boy” Bobbi Campbell
On this day, August 8, 1983 Bobbi Campbell, and his partner Bobby Hilliard, became the faces of the deadly plague…
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#ThrowbackThursday- The Infamous Adonis Movie Theater NYC (1975 – 1988)
The 1,433-seat Adonis Theater, was originally built as the Tivoli Theater in 1921 by Billy Rose for Fanny Brice and…
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Gay History – June 30: Cincinnati Police Ignore Anti-Gay Public Pool Riot, GA Sodomy Law Upheld, and Jacob Israel de Haan Assassinated
June 30, 2000: David Copeland, 24, is convicted murder for planting a bomb in a London gay bar a year…
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Gay History- June 19, 1983: Founder of the Moral Majority Jerry Falwell: “AIDS Is God’s Punishment For Homosexuals.”
Appearing on CNN a day after Falwell's death, Christopher Hitchens said: "The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves…
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Gay History – June 17: Liberace: ‘I’M NOT GAY!’, Barry Manilow, Walter Mondale, and NYC Funeral Homes Refuse to Embalm AIDS Victims
July 17, 1959 - On this date a London court awarded pianist Liberace $22,400 in damages against the "London Daily…
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Gay History – Remembering Bisexual Actor Brad Davis Who Fought For Work and Dignity While Battling AIDS
Brad Davis: (1949-1991) - Born Robert Davis on November 6th, 1949 to Eugene Davis (a dentist from Beverly Hills whose…
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Gay History – June 2: AIDS Tax Introduced in Congress, Bill Clinton Introduces PRIDE Month, and Crimes Against Nature Charges in 2008
June 2, 1983 - US Congressman Lawrence McDonald (D-GA) proposed that a "user-tax" be imposed on people with AIDS to…
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