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LGBT History July 3rd, 1981 – The New York Times “Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals”
Share this: On July 3, 1981, The New York Times’s wrote it’sfirst article about AIDS, headlined “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” (“Gay” had yet to be accepted by The Times’s style manual.) The cancer was Kaposi’s sarcoma,...
2014 Presidential Proclamation: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Pride Month
Share this: “As progress spreads from State to State, as justice is delivered in the courtroom, and as more of our fellow Americans are treated with dignity and respect — our Nation becomes not only more accepting, but more equal as...
1982: While Gay Men Lay Dying The Reagan White House Laughed At AIDS
Share this: David Mixner posted a transcript today of the first time that AIDS was mentioned in the White House during a press briefing. If you want to know the barriers people with HIV/AIDS faced in the early 1980′s just read this transcript...
Pat Robertson Responds: I Only Said That Because Gays Were Trying To Infect Me With AIDS
Share this: “I was asked by a viewer whether she had a right to leave her church because she had been asked to transport an elderly man who had AIDS and about whose condition she had not been informed. My advice was that the risk of contagion in...
Elizabeth Warren and 86 Members of Congress Demand an End to the FDA’s Gay Blood Donor Ban
Share this: Led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and a group of 87 members of Congress sent a letter has sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’ demanding that they lift the ban on blood donors who are “men who have had sex with...
An Honest, Open Reaction to Learning That My Partner was HIV+
Share this: I do not, by any stretch of the imagination, think that I had the perfect reaction, and this is certainly not a ‘How to…’ sort of post. Rather, as the title explains, it is the unedited diary entry that I wrote the day that an ex...
Cynthia Nixon Talks About HIV/AIDS
Share this: Sex in the City star Cynthia Nixon has been a strong activist since coming out several years. In particular, Nixon has put a lot of time and dedication into providing education and prevention of the spread of HIV/AIDS as well as talking about...
How We All Need To Evolve About HIV/AIDS
Share this: Several weeks ago I was asked to do an Op-Ed on whether an HIV negative man should date someone who is positive. Being completely honest, I was nervous. Not because the subject matter of discussing HIV/AIDS makes me nervous, but for fear...
Catholic League President Bill Donohue: The Gays Blame Everyone Else For AIDS But Themselves
Share this: “The most common effect of amorality, they said, is narcissism. Narcissism is the only word that adequately explains the reaction of gays to AIDS: it was everyone’s fault but theirs. If anyone has any doubt about this, he should...
