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The Chilling Statistics of AIDS Deaths in Gay Men Help Understand The Long-term Trauma They Endure Today

The Chilling Statistics of AIDS Deaths in Gay Men Help Understand The Long-term Trauma They Endure Today

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An article by Dr Dana Rosenfeld, Director of the Keele Centre for Ageing Research reported more than 5 years ago on the affects that gay men who lived through the AIDS crisis and the trauma they endured and how it still stays with them today.

The article points out that older gay people were aged 50-70 in 1980, when HIV / AIDS emerged in the west, gay male ‘baby boomers’ (born 1946-1964) were aged 34-16 and how for them, the high number of AIDS deaths at the epidemic’s peak (1987-1996) shaped their lives, during the epidemic, throughout their life course, and into later years. 

Statistics: AIDS killed 324,029 men and women in the USA between 1987 and 1998.

AIDS deaths were highest in major cities with thriving gay communities with a far higher proportion of gay male residents than the national average. In 1990, AIDS caused 61% of all deaths of men aged 25-44 (born 1946-1965) in San Francisco, 35% in New York, 51% in Ft. Lauderdale, 32% in Boston, 33% in Washington, DC, 39% in Seattle, 34% in Dallas, 38% in Atlanta, 43% in Miami, and 25% in Portland, Oregon. Older gay men, myself included who had lost friends and / or partners during the AIDS epidemic described cities becoming virtual ghost-towns.

The AIDS epidemic’s impacts on this generation of gay men, now aged 54-72, are still being explored. High mortality within tight gay networks have inspired the term ‘multiple loss syndrome’ to capture these deaths’ psychological toll. 

Dr Rosenfled also found that ‘nearly all older gay men alive today, regardless of their HIV status or when they come out, have been impacted in some way’ by HIV / AIDS. Many of these men were (and continue to be) AIDS activists and / or carers, and have played, and continue to play, a central role in the LGBT community’s history.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 79.3 million [55.9–110 million] people have been infected with the HIV virus and 36.3 million [27.2–47.8 million] people have died of HIV. Globally, 37.7 million [30.2–45.1 million] people were living with HIV at the end of 2020.

It’s still not over.

transgender woman became furious after accidentally being misgendered and being called "sir" instead of "ma'am" at a GameStop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Transgender Woman Loses It After Being Accidentally Misgendered at GameStop – Video

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A transgender woman became furious after accidentally being misgendered and being called “sir” instead of “ma’am” at a GameStop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

A video of the incident shows the woman angrily demanding their “fucking money back” from a male employee who accidentally used the word “sir”.

To make matters worse a nearby customer with her young son enraged the woman further by misgendering her again saying: “Excuse me sir, there is a young man in here you need to watch your mouth.”

And that’s when all hell broke loose.

“Excuse me, it is ma’am, it is ma’am! You need to settle down and mind your business, ok?! The trans woman screamed back at the customer.

The sales clerk tried and calm the situation down but was then yelled at again.

She told him: “Motherfucker, take it outside if you want to call me sir again. I will show you a fucking sir.”

The customer then stormed out, kicking over a huge pile of equipment with a loud crash.

But apparently changing her mind, the shopper charged back again to demand the corporate headquarters phone number.

In a video, published on Friday, she told him: “I am going to tell them how I have been misgendered several times in this store.

As she irate woman finally left the store she told the clerk that she would inform the “entire LGBT community”.

BLOG SWARM – TWITTER SWARM! – Ohio Senate Bill SB 5 – Anti Union, Anti-Gay, and Un-American FIGHT BACK TUESDAY! Call and FLOOD The OH State House!

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As I posted yesterday Ohio ReTHUGlicans and Tea Party loons are not only trying to screw over Ohio’s State Employees, Unions and blue collar workers workers but they’ve also secretly added an attack on LGBT Ohionas as well stuck into the middle of  the controversial Senate Bill 5.

We MUST put a drop to this.  This whole GOP loony Tea Party bullshit of taking away from the people of the State to balance the budget of their screw-ups and allowing them to use the power that they have to destroy the REAL Americans and also use their power to push a rabid bigoted hateful agenda.

It’s time to say enough of this bullshit.  We’ve played nice against the GOP and the Tea Party and it doesn’t work.  Face it. Nice guys don’t win.  It’s time to get angry and it’s time to have our voices heard. Because for us not to stand up and do something….anything and try and stop these assholes makes us just as bad as they are and then we deserve what we get.

Being “above it” and taking the “high road” is the reason why Democrats get walked all over.  Being “above it” and taking the “high road” is why Heath Care reform and become a lame watered down joke. Being “above it” and taking the “high road” and not fighting back against the GOP and Tea Baggers is why they are in power today and being “above it” and taking the “high road” is why 40 years after the Stonewall Riots we still not have equal rights and are treated as second class citizens.

First Wisconsin and now Ohio which has the nerve to not only to attack and try to bust up Unions but has to the nerve to bash LGBT Ohioans at the same time.

And let me make one thing perfectly clear.  This is not about the budgets.  It’s not about money.  These GOP bills are about busting up the Unions which are the last bit of muscle that the Democratic party has.  this is nothing more than the GOP trying to obtain absolute power so they can corrupt absolutely.

We ALL must do our best to stop them!

Today at The Ohio State House in Columbus there will be a massive protest Statehouse Against SB 5 and Kasich’s Anti-Worker Agenda but more than just physical protesters are needed.

I am calling on you ALL out there weather you live in Ohio or not to take 5 minutes and stand up and FIGHT against this Bill.  Weather you be gay, straight, black, white or purple.  If you are Pro Choice, Pro Gun Control, Pro Union, Pro Civil Rights, Pro Equality or just Pro Sanity we must ban together and PROVE that we will not let them do this and walk all over us.

Call  Ohio State House and tell them that you will NOT STAND FOR SB 5.  Lets jam the phone lines. And you know what?  You don’t have to be nice and polite.  Get angry.  BE ANGRY.  AND LET THEM KNOW IT!  Anger is an important weapon.  Tell them the truth.  Tell them whats in your heart and call them out!

Lets try to get as many phone calls and emails as we can to Columbus because if we don’t stop this now we are all in danger of losing whats left of our way of life.

Contact the Ohio State House and tell Gov. Kaisch and Lt. Governor Mary Taylor and tell them what you think about SB 5

Phone: (614) 466-3555

And also feel free to contact the Anti Union, Anti Gay, Ohio SB 5 Bill Sponsor – Senator Shannon Jones – R @ (614) 466-9737 and give her a piece of your mind also.  She more than deserves it.

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