Dennis Prager’s claim that was ‘nceivable’ that gay men were seen as ‘pariahs’ the 1980s is extraordarily accurate - Poynter

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• NELSON PIQUET JR. GAY SLUR: NASCAR DRIVER FED $10,000 FOR HOMOPHOBIC TWEET AT PARKER KLIGERMAN
• NELSON PIQUET JR. FED, ON PROBATN FOR GAY SLUR
• DENNIS PRAGER’S CLAIM THAT WAS ‘NCEIVABLE’ THAT GAY MEN WERE SEEN AS ‘PARIAHS’ THE 1980S IS EXTRAORDARILY ACCURATE

NELSON PIQUET JR. GAY SLUR: NASCAR DRIVER FED $10,000 FOR HOMOPHOBIC TWEET AT PARKER KLIGERMAN

NASCAR punished Natnal Seri driver Nelson Piquet for makg a homophobic remark a tweet to fellow driver Stt Kligerman. The three-letter rponse was a homophobic slur. Has been fed%2410%2C000 and orred to attend sensivy tragPiquet ed a gay slur an stagram post to fellow driver Parker KligermanNASCAR also issued a six-pot penalty to Joey Logano%27s Natnwi teamNelson Piquet Jr.

NELSON PIQUET JR. FED, ON PROBATN FOR GAY SLUR

Has been fed $10, 000 and orred to attend sensivy trag after postg an Instagram ment wh a gay rponse to fellow Natnwi Seri driver Parker Kligerman's selfie after a workout, Piquet wrote a ment wh a three-letter slur.

DENNIS PRAGER’S CLAIM THAT WAS ‘NCEIVABLE’ THAT GAY MEN WERE SEEN AS ‘PARIAHS’ THE 1980S IS EXTRAORDARILY ACCURATE

8 terview wh Newsmax that was “nceivable” that gay men would have been seen as “pariahs” durg the AIDS crisis.

Prager said, “Durg the AIDS crisis, n you image if gay men and traveno dg ers … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccated are? But would’ve been nceivable” Dennis Prager: “Durg the AIDS crisis, n you image if gay men and traveno dg ers…had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccated are?

But we checked wh multiple historians of the perd and each was mystified by the characterizatn that the AIDS epimic somehow spared gay men and traveno dg ers om beg treated as outsts. Gay men were pariahs public opn, unr the law, the media, and among ernment officials.