More than thirty years to the HIV/AIDS epimic, and at a time when fectns among gay and bisexual men are on the rise the U.S., a new natnal survey of gay and bisexual men by the Kaiser Fay Foundatn fds that though HIV/AIDS is named as the number one health issue facg their populatn, a majory are not personally ncerned about beg fected, and relatively few report havg been tted recently. Only about a quarter know about PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) and fewer than half are aware that the current guil for people wh HIV are to start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as soon as they are diagnosed.
Contents:
- HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
- FACT CHECK: DID RH LIMBGH READ A LIST OF GAY MEN WHO DIED AS AN 'AIDS UPDATE'?
- THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS
- PREVENTG HIV AMONG LATO AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN A CONTEXT OF HIV-RELATED STIGMA, DISCRIMATN, AND HOMOPHOBIA: PERSPECTIV OF PROVIRS
HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
The high percentage of gay and bisexual men who are livg wh HIV means that, as a group, they have a greater risk of beg exposed to HIV; browse lks here. * gays and aids *
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.
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. 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 .
IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
Gay and bisexual men are more severely affected by HIV than any other group the Uned Stat (US). * gays and aids *
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.
FACT CHECK: DID RH LIMBGH READ A LIST OF GAY MEN WHO DIED AS AN 'AIDS UPDATE'?
Is AIDS a "gay" disease? Today, 70% of new HIV s occur homosexual and bisexual mal. HIV/AIDS is spread by risky sexual behavr... * gays and aids *
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]. The homophobia that LGBTI people face their daily liv – pl the crimalisatn of same-sex relatnships, cross-drsg, sodomy and ‘genr impersonatn’ – stops many LGBTI people om accsg HIV preventn, ttg, treatment and re servic. Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc.
But now, thanks to Rsell T Davi’s movg five-part Channel 4 drama seri, It’s a S, we are all able to look at a vivid, troublg and yet ultimately upliftg picture of those dark and adly younger dienc, may be shockg to learn jt how exclud and hidn the gay muny was om mastream life.
THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS
Unrstand health ncerns for gay men and other men who have sex wh men, and learn how to promote good health. * gays and aids *
Then beme known as “Grid” – gay-related immune ficiency – before acquired immunoficiency syndrome was fally ed (Aids) spread to the UK, a muny that was jt begng to fd s public voice and nfince was hered back to the shadows by a homophobic prs mpaign. Terms like the “gay plague” were wily ed and the belief was fostered that the disease uld be transmted by any kd of gay muny was held spicn by all sectors of society, cludg the health service where, aga as Davi shows, Aids patients were often placed harsh ndns of isolatn.
As wh the current panmic, many people died lonely aths, only the se of HIV there was no medil reason for their as bleak as the perd was, also gave birth to an upsurge gay activism and support groups that helped transform the posn of the gay muny this, four people who were at the foreont of the stggl brought so powerfully to life It’s a S, tell their stori their own Whaker, the -founr of the Terence Higgs Tst. His fay swooped and kicked out all the gay iends and forced him on his ath bed to rent his homosexualy and accept the last r or he was gog to burn had the most vile thgs done to people who were credibly vulnerable. But I thk we wouldn’t have gay marriage now if hadn’t been for Aids, bee showed first of all that we were real people and Whaker is a psychiatrist and one of Europe’s longt-survivg people wh HIV.
He -found the Terrence Higgs Tst, named after his partner who was one of the first people the UK to die om Aids-related illns July Power, left, who worked on the Gay Swchboard the 1980s. ‘It was a time of nfn and then a time of nsirable fear’Lisa Power, sexual health and LGBT rights mpaignerI was workg on the Gay Swchboard durg the Aids outbreak. This was a time when nobody was out as gay the police and very few were out as gay the health profsn, bee got you to all kds of there were thoands of people who got stuck all over the untry tryg to help out, lots of them lbians, lots of them other gay men, who were terrified but ntually faced their fear to provi sential Bton, send om right, who worked for many years as a nurse wh HIV patients.
PREVENTG HIV AMONG LATO AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN A CONTEXT OF HIV-RELATED STIGMA, DISCRIMATN, AND HOMOPHOBIA: PERSPECTIV OF PROVIRS
TV drama It’s a S looked back at a dark era for the gay muny. Here, some of those who remember tell of the real-life agony – and the hope * gays and aids *
“So many people have said my terview wh her helped them e out or even saved them om suici, by helpg them realize they uld be gay and Christian or that God was not punishg them wh AIDS for beg gay. Pieters also served for years on the board of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, for whom he sang sce 1994 ncert halls that clud Carnegie Hall New York, Tchaikovsky Hall Mosw and the Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angel. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.
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His Game of Thron parody, Gay of Thron, was nomated for three Emmys and led to his breakout role on Netflix’s Queer Eye flamboyant ont man for the band Queen kept quiet about his HIV stat until the day before his ath om AIDS-related bronchial pnmonia November 1991.
Sce then, he's worked to te people about HIV and a 2002 article for The Advote, the bass player for the band Styx wrote: "When I was diagnosed 10 years ago, there was a lot of sufferg the gay muny. The media personaly passed away after a year-long battle wh lung nservativ mourned, many left-leang voic cricized Limbgh, who had been long acced of pog racist, sexist and homophobic views throughout his a rad pneer, Limbgh peddled nspiracy theori and ed his platform to ny climate ath has led to many to ment on a particular time his reer, when his show discsed the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ' AIDS crisis, ed by HIV, saw gay and bi men die om the sexually transmted disease at alarmg rat. This was at a time when homosexualy was still Thursday, the word "AIDS" was the third-most searched term on Google alongsi Limbgh's Limbgh had a segment lled "AIDS update" set to mic where he mocked dyg gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speakg ill of the ad' today— Jsi Valenti (@JsiValenti) Febary 17, 2021.
Excerpted om The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life Ameri by Charl Kaiser. * gays and aids *
The ClaimMany high-profile people on Twter have been mentg to say that Limbgh once had a segment on his show, The Rh Limbgh Show, lled "AIDS Update" that mocked the aths of gay example, lumnist Jsi Valenti went viral wh her tweet that claimed: "Rh Limbgh had a segment lled 'AIDS update' set to mic where he mocked dyg gay people so I don't really want hear about 'speakg ill of the ad' today.
The acclaimed HBO Max seri, featurg a largely LGBTQ st, tells the story of a group of gay men and their iends London the early 1980s at the begng of the HIV/AIDS crisis, shg a light on a dark chapter that's been fadg om memory. * gays and aids *
"Another viral tweet me om Pl Elltt Johnson, an assistant profsor at the Universy of Ptsburgh, who tweeted: "Rh Limbgh had a regular rad segment where he would read off the nam of gay people who died of AIDS and celebrate and play horns and bells and stuff.
"Brish polil mentator Ash Sarkar tweeted: "In the 1980s, Rh Limbgh hosted a regular rad segment lled 'AIDS Update', where he celebrated and mocked the aths of gay and bisexual men. "Actor Harry Cook add: "Rh Limbgh had a rad segment lled "AIDS Update" where he'd read out the nam of gay people who had died and celebrate wh horns and bells. A passage reads: "He chastised 'ant homosexuals' for their disrpectful behavr and shortly thereafter began broadstg irreverent and tastels 'AIDS Update' segments troduced by Dnne Warwick's "I'll Never Love This Way Aga.
"The Los Angel Tim published an article 1998 about what was scribed as the "popular" feature of Limbgh's publitn stated that Limbgh even said, "Gays served their fate.