Contents:
- ELR GAYS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT JIMMY STOKELY? WAS HE BISEXUAL? SOP? GROUPIE STORI?
- MEET THE WOMAN WHO RED FOR HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN DYG OF AIDS WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD
ELR GAYS: WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT JIMMY STOKELY? WAS HE BISEXUAL? SOP? GROUPIE STORI?
Over the next , Coker Burks would re for over 1, 000 gay men dyg of the disease who were abandoned by their honor of LGBTQ Pri Month and the 40th anniversary of the begng of the HIV and AIDS epimic 1981, TODAY had the opportuny to talk wh the accintal activist to look back on her credible story that above all else, shows what happens when someone over fear for love and life. A vout Christian, sgle mother of one and real tate agent workg the timhare dtry, Burks pretend to know a lot more about the gay muny than she actually did. Many gay men who beme sick wh HIV and AIDS the 1980s and 1990s were shunned by their fai, abandoned and left to die Burks tried llg Jimmy's mother numero tim, but each time his mother refed to take the ll.
“My son died years ago when he went gay, ” she told Coker Burks. Grove AtlanticBut after leavg Jimmy’s hospal room after he passed, she learned that the homophobia the men experienced lived on well after their fal breath.
MEET THE WOMAN WHO RED FOR HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN DYG OF AIDS WHEN NO ONE ELSE WOULD
“It is not to dimish her story to say that heterosexual angels weren’t the domant narrative of the AIDS crisis, but a vanishgly rare exceptn to a le of homophobia, celty and prejudice, ” wr The Guardian’s Olivia Lag.