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IN SOME CI, GAYS FACE GREATER RISK OF BEG HOMELS
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In the 1980s, gay men were ravaged by AIDS, wh the disease quickly spreadg to other mory groups across the globe.
The above photo shows marchers at New York Cy’s 1989 Lbian and Gay Pri Para mandg more rearch and fundg for AIDS treatments. 1987 marked the send Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian and Gay Rights.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
"If you wore my logo T-shirt, people knew you were gay all over the world, " he says. Now, Oviatt fds himself symbolizg somethg stark about the gay muny. A recent cens of the homels populatn San Francis found that 29 percent of them intify as gay.
That is twice the share of the cy's total populatn that is gay, lbian or transgenr. "There's this stereotype of the gay muny that we're all dog well and are affluent, " says San Francis Supervisor David Campos. " It's typil for young gays, who have often fled hostile environments, to make up a large proportn of the homels who are unr 25 — perhaps as much as 40 percent major ci such as Boston and Los Angel.
But the generatn of gays who me of age the 1970s and 1980s — those who saw their iends cimated by AIDS — are now overreprented among the homels, as well.