AIDS
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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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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 17th: Liberace: ‘I’m NOT Gay!’, 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 – June 2: AIDS Tax Introduced in Congress, Bill Clinton, and Crimes Against Nature
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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Gay History – Reagan Administration Audio Reveals Chilling Response to the AIDS Crisis in the 1980’s
Filmmaker Scott Calonico’s documentary short, When AIDS Was Funny released audio a few years ago that showed the Reagan administrations…
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MEMORIAL DAY – WATCH: A Day In The Life Of The AIDS Memorial Quilt and Remember OUR Fallen [VIDEO]
There is more than one type of war and those who become causalities of it.On October 12, 1996. The AIDS…
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Gay History – May 18, 1981: Dr. Lawrence Mass Becomes The First Person To Report About AIDS
While many believe that June 5, 1981 is the date of the first published report about the deadly disease which…
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New HIV Study Shows With Treatment There Is ‘Zero Risk’ of Transmission
A new study which followed nearly 1,000 gay male couples in The Lancet has found that due to treatment reducing…
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