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• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY AS AIDS
• 'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE
• IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
• HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
• NATNAL GAY MEN’S HIV/AIDS AWARENS DAY
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• HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Social and stctural issu—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimatn, poverty, and limed accs to high-qualy health re—fluence health out and ntue to drive equi.

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Men who have sex wh men were, and still are, disproportnately impacted by HIV bee transms much more easily through anal sex than through vagal first official ernment report on AIDS me on June 5, 1981, the Morbidy and Mortaly Weekly Report, a ernment bullet on perplexg disease s: “In the perd October 1980-May 1981, 5 young men, all active homosexuals, were treated for bpsy-nfirmed Pnmocystis rii pnmonia at 3 different hospals Los Angel, California. ”In a 1983 appearance on NBC's "Today" show, activist and Gay Mens Health Crisis -founr Larry Kramer asked host Jane Pley, "Jane, n you image what mt be like if you had lost 20 of your iends the last 18 months? "It's a very angry muny, " Kramer as the natn's attentn was directed toward gay AIDS victims, the vis was replitg the bloodstreams of hemophiliacs and jectn dg ers.

'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE

'GAY PLAGUE'After the Stonewall Rts 1969, LGBTQ activists across the untry ma signifint civil rights advanc and secured some municipal and state-level protectns agast discrimatn public employment. Jerry Falwell, whose “Moral Majory” veighed agast givg rights to gay and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant heads a csa to nullify a lol gay rights ordance, Feb. She lled the group "Save Our Children" and said reprented the rights of the majory of fileOn March 22, 1980, a year before that first MMWR report, evangelil Christian lears livered a petn to Print Jimmy Carter mandg a halt to the advance of gay rights.

“God’s judgment is gog to fall on Ameri as on other societi that allowed homosexualy to bee a protected way of life, ” Bob Jon III predicted, acrdg to the anti-gay reactn gaed steam across Ameri wh the electn of Moral Majory ally Ronald Reagan, activists found their mands for attentn for a growg medil crisis were ignored.

IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?

One such group was the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, found New York Cy 1982, which is today the olst HIV/AIDS service anizatn the Men's Health Crisis Smh / NY Daily News via Getty Imag fileBut 1987, activists were still trated by ernment actn as bodi ntued to pile up, and they found the AIDS Coaln To Unleash Power, or ACT UP, New York, their actns and their activist art are legendary for speedg the ernment’s rponse to the AIDS crisis, allowg quicker ttg and treatment of lifavg experimental dgs, and drawg public attentn to the adly impact of homophobic public health polici. In New York, December 1989 ACT UP and took over St Patrick’s 1991, Activist Peter Staley draped a giant ndom over the home of noted homophobic senator Jse Helms om North Carola.

13, 1996, San Diego agast GOP polici on AIDS awarens and gay Her / Boston Globe via Getty Imag fileIn 1996, for the first time, AIDS aths dropped by 23 percent. Wh It's a S, Davi ptur the tragic irony of an era where gay men were jt startg to enjoy some amount of eedom after hard-fought battl for liberatn, only to be ravaged by an unseen viral predator. "You know, now that I'm lookg back, I realize what a huge impact that had on me as I was g to terms wh my own sexualy and the word gay and AIDS were ed as jok the playground.

HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.

Though Rchie might be the fierct nialist the seri, 's clear that at least at the outset, most of It's a S's gay characters n't be bothered to stop the party. Sensg the impendg wave of fectns, olr gay men try, to no avail, to warn their younger unterparts, but their advisory posters are rejected om gay bars and their worri are shunned as simply attempts to prive a younger generatn of their newfound sexual eedom. Jill is a straight woman livg the Pk Palace wh her gay iends, and though we don't learn much about her personal story, she do a lot of the show's emotnal labor — whether 's phonebankg, prott anizg or holdg the hands of the abandoned and dyg — and she do all wh ltle regnn.

's Channel 4, he's seen feedback om younger gay men — livg today's world of advanced preventative HIV medice and relative eedom — who are outraged "that such a world ever existed. READ MORE: Panmics That Changed History: A TimeleThe AIDS Epimic Aris Though HIV arrived the Uned Stat around 1970, didn’t e to the public’s attentn until the early 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh Pnmocystis pnmonia, which is ed by the normally harmls fung Pnmocystis jirovecii.

Bee the disease appeared to affect mostly homosexual men, officials ially lled gay-related immune ficiency, or the CDC disvered all major rout of the disease’s transmissn—as well as that female partners of AIDS-posive men uld be fected— 1983, the public nsired AIDS a gay disease.

NATNAL GAY MEN’S HIV/AIDS AWARENS DAY

The FDA would revise s l 2015 to allow gay men to give blood if they’ve been celibate for a year, though blood banks routely tt blood for the end of 1985, there were more than 20, 000 reported s of AIDS, wh at least one se every regn of the is Developed In 1987, the first antiretroviral meditn for HIV, azidothymide (AZT), beme available. HIV/AIDS the 1990s and 2000s In 1991, the red ribbon beme an ternatnal symbol of AIDS that year, basketball player Magic Johnson announced he had HIV, helpg to further brg awarens to the issue and dispel the stereotype of beg a gay disease. They claimed that should not be associated wh homosexualy any way, shape or form bee this allegedly led to the “stigmatizg and spegoatg” of homosexuals.

But as evince piled up, the allegatn that homosexualy and HIV/AIDS were unrelated was no longer fensible, and those who nied the nnectn were creasgly perceived as disnnected om realy. However, Amerin urts have thlsly med the Constutn to illicly expand the right to privacy to clu abortn, fantici, thanasia, pornography ― and now, ersatz homosexual “marriage.

Organized “gays” have blocked blood screeng for HIV, fought the closg of homosexual bathho, advoted for the legalizatn of both male and female prostutn, shut down ntact tracg and sexual partner notifitn, opposed crimalizg the liberate fectn of another person wh HIV-AIDS, and promoted the e of ndoms, which have a six to eight percent failure rate.

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To show how out of touch the mastream media is wh realy, Newsweek Magaze, which has featured AIDS on s ver no fewer than twenty tim, laid the blame for the AIDS epimic at the feet of “homophobia and relig lears steeped moralistic doctre who have supprsed hont nversatn about how to stop . In perhaps the most extreme statement of self-excal, Harry Hay, founr of the first homophile anizatn the Uned Stat (the Mattache Society), acced nservativ of velopg and spreadg the AIDS vis. All of this shows the power of the homosexual lobby as greedily gobbl up every penny n get s hands on for s very small percentage of the populatn, thereby privg lns of others of badly-need assistance.

But still AIDS fundg climbs relentlsly, bee lawmakers know that if they vote agast any crease, the homophil will stantly brand them as “hate-filled bigots” and “homophob. [4] Acrdg to the Natnal Gay Task Force, screeng donated blood for HIV is “spegoatg” and “stigmatizg” [Journal of the Amerin Medil Associatn, Febary 4, 1983; New Dimensns Magaze, March 1990].

Factors that fluence health out—cludg HIV-related stigma, homophobia, racism, discrimatn, poverty, limed accs to high-qualy health re, and other longstandg barriers—have ntributed to the unequal reach of HIV preventn and treatment; higher levels of HIV some muni; and ntued equi. Wh effective preventn and treatment tools at our disposal, the natn has a s--the-makg opportuny to end the domtic HIV epimic and elimate dispari HIV preventn and re among gay and bisexual men and other populatns disproportnately affected by HIV. However, dispari ntue to exist among Black/Ain Amerin and Hispanic/Lato gay and bisexual men where 37% and 32% acunt for new HIV diagnos pared to other racial and ethnic groups.

HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

First observed 2008 by the Natnal Associatn of People wh AIDS, the Natnal Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awarens Day is a time to foc on the impact of HIV and AIDS on gay and bisexual men as well as ongog efforts to rce HIV and AIDS this populatn. CDC is fundg a monstratn project 4 jurisdictns to intify active HIV transmissn works and implement HIV terventns for Hispanic/Lato gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men.

In 2017, CDC award nearly $11 ln per year for five years to 30 CBOs to provi HIV ttg to young gay and bisexual men of lor and transgenr youth of lor, wh the goal of intifyg undiagnosed HIV fectns and lkg those who have HIV to re and preventn servic. The historic Stonewall uprisg that took place the morng of June 28, 1969 served as a galvanizg event—one year later, to memorate the rts, thoands of marchers took to the New York Cy streets the natn’s first gay pri to s of tirels advocy, LGBTQ+ people now hold visible learship rol lol, state, and feral ernment; n openly serve the U.

In March 2021, the nonpartisan Public Relign Rearch Instute published a report showg natnwi support for anti-discrimatn laws and marriage equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people reached an all-time high. Progrs has also been ma when to LGBTQ+ rights and public health, such as the removal of the 22-year travel ban that prohibed all persons wh HIV om obtag tourist visas or permanent rince stat, though clearly there is much more to be done—and we, as a society and as public health, mt not mata the systems that support the equi and propagate has been extribly lked wh gay men’s health sce the early 1980s, when officials ially termed what would later bee known as AIDS, Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID).