HIV/AIDS In The Liv Of Gay And Bisexual Men In The Uned Stat | KFF

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

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 . 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.

IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?

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'?

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.

THE REAL RERD OF THE REAGANS ON GAYS AND AIDS

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.

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.

PREVENTG HIV AMONG LATO AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN A CONTEXT OF HIV-RELATED STIGMA, DISCRIMATN, AND HOMOPHOBIA: PERSPECTIV OF PROVIRS

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. “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.

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