HIV and the syndrome , AIDS, began spreadg the Uned Stat the early 1980s. By the late 1980s had bee a public health crisis. Inially the U.S. ernment did ltle to addrs the epimic, due part to misnceptns that the disease only affected gay men. Activists me together to mand a rponse om the ernment and the ternatnal muny. By the mid-1990s, HIV/AIDS numbers were on the cle Ameri. Today, lns of people around the world are livg wh HIV and tens of thoands of people die of AIDS-related illns every year.
Contents:
- SF WAS AT EPICENTER OF LBIANS HELPG GAY MEN DURG AIDS CRISIS
- IN A 1ST, GAY & BI MEN ACUNT FOR LS THAN HALF OF NEW SF HIV S
SF WAS AT EPICENTER OF LBIANS HELPG GAY MEN DURG AIDS CRISIS
The late drag queen José Jul Sarria, a gay Lato veteran who left a lastg impact on polics and the LGBTQ muny, is now the send drag queen to be part of the California Hall of Fame. On June 5, 1981, the feral Centers for Disease Control and Preventn's Morbidy and Mortaly Weekly Report noted five s of pnmocystis pnmonia among prevly healthy gay men Los Angel.
The Bay Area Reporter had s first story July 2, 1981, a brief em about "Gay Men's Pnmonia" — potentially lked to poppers — buried on page 34. Centers for Disease Control and Preventn about five s of Pnmocystis pnmonia (PCP) among young gay men Los Angel. The disease that would e to be known as AIDS was first mentned the Bay Area Reporter a July 2 Health Shorts lumn about "Gay Men's Pnmonia" — potentially lked to poppers — buried on page 34.
IN A 1ST, GAY & BI MEN ACUNT FOR LS THAN HALF OF NEW SF HIV S
The next mentn was a news brief the September 24 issue announcg that "gay ncer" would be a topic at the November 2 Stonewall Gay Democratic Club meetg, featurg Dr. Co-thored by Sister Roz Erectn and Sister Florence Nightmare (aka Bobbi Campbell), both nurs, may be the first published advice that gay men e ndoms. This was the send such anizatn after Gay Men's Health Crisis New York Cy, found by thor Larry Kramer and others January 1982.
Some argued that sexually active gay men should be screened and exclud om donatg, while others favored voluntary ferral.
A group of people wh AIDS rpond wh an open letter to the KS Foundatn, plag that Lorch's sensatnalistic approach "fuels the fir of fear, guilt, and homophobia. "[W]hat a perversn is of Gay Liberatn to ignore the overwhelmg scientific evince, to keep quiet, to ny the obv — when the liv of Gay men are at stake. Sanrs broke the story that some 40% of people wh AIDS are mori, shatterg the stereotype that is a disease of whe gay epimic revealed both rifts and solidary between gay men and lbians.