Contents:
- EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: RYAN WHE ON HIS NETFLIX PAMELA ANRSON DOC “SHE’S A GAY IN & HUGE ALLY”
- BREAKG THE GAY BLOOD BAN
- ‘COD’ DIRECTOR RYAN WHE ON HIS DOCUMENTARY SHORT ABOUT A PNEERG GAY ARTIST ‘FOTTEN OM HISTORY’
EXCLIVE INTERVIEW: RYAN WHE ON HIS NETFLIX PAMELA ANRSON DOC “SHE’S A GAY IN & HUGE ALLY”
Twter ers have highlighted the se of Ryan Whe a heated unterargument to recent ntroversial ments ma by Dennis Prager about the AIDS crisis and unvaccated Amerins an terview wh Newsmax on remarks by the nservative mentator sentially asked what if gay men were treated like "pariahs" durg the AIDS crisis the way that non-vaccated people are allegedly treated was a teenager who died 1990 after beg diagnosed wh AIDS (acquired immunoficiency syndrome) followg a tated blood transfn. "He said: "Durg the AIDS crisis, n you image if gay men and traveno dg ers, who were the vast majory of the people wh AIDS, had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccated are?
Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) published s first report of five prevly healthy gay men Los Angel who were diagnosed wh what would later bee known as the end of that year, a total of 337 s of dividuals wh severe immune ficiency were reported the untry, many of whom were gay early as July that year, The New York Tim published an article tled "Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals, " and at this pot, the term "gay ncer" entered the public lexin, acrdg to the the followg year May 1982, The Tim published the first mentn of the term "GRID" (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency), which some rearchers at the time ed to scribe the new epimic. The term later epened "the public perceptn that AIDS affects only gay men, " the CDC was a 13-year-old livg Kokomo, Indiana when he was diagnosed wh AIDS on December 17, 1984 followg a tated blood transfn, acrdg to the webse of the Health Rourc & Servic Admistratn (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human was among the first children wh hemophilia, an hered bleedg disorr (Whe was a hemophiliac sce birth), to be diagnosed wh AIDS, the life-threateng ndn ed by HIV (human immunoficiency vis) 1985, Whe was banned om returng to Wtern Middle School followg his AIDS diagnosis.
BREAKG THE GAY BLOOD BAN
People were really cel, people said that he [Whe] had to be gay, that he had to have done somethg bad or wrong, or he wouldn't have had . First of all gay men were treated as utter pariahs. "In another tweet, Marshall wrote that Whe "served as a symbol for the tragedy of aids while beg 'blamels' bee gay men were a) pariahs and b) were seen by many as havg brought the disease on themselv.
‘COD’ DIRECTOR RYAN WHE ON HIS DOCUMENTARY SHORT ABOUT A PNEERG GAY ARTIST ‘FOTTEN OM HISTORY’
Pariah too nice of word for what really happened to gay men, traveno dg ers—even children who acquired through blood transfns. Pariah too nice of word for what really happened to gay men, traveno dg ers - even children who acquired through blood transfns. People were really cel, people said that he had to be gay, that he had to have done somethg bad or wrong, or he wouldn't have had .
Stctured around s-down terviews om notable figur such as Ellen DeGener, Oprah Wey, Billy Crystal, Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Michael Douglas, Billie Jean Kg, Warren Ltlefield, Ryan Phillippe, Raven-Symoné, Greg Berlanti and Norman Lear, “Visible” weav the often-improbable history of gay, lbian and trans reprentatn on Amerin televisn.
One of those surpris was the 1970s seri “Three’s Company, ” a multimera s that featured John Rter as a California bachelor pretendg to be gay so his landlord would let him be roommat wh two sgle women. Rter played his character as over-the-top and flamboyant when necsary, but for many young gay men was the first time they saw themselv reprented on televisn any ntext. Even though he was playg gay, wh quotatns, he wasn’t a gay man.