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Contents:
- HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
- BETWEEN TWO PANMICS: OLR, GAY MEN'S EXPERIENC ACROSS HIV/AIDS AND COVID-19
- STIGMA AND S ROLE HIV PREVENTN AND RE OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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REV. STEPHEN PIETERS, HIV SURVIVOR AND GAY ACTIVIST, DI AT 70
Rev. Steve Pieters, an HIV survivor and gay activist who helped shift views around HIV/AIDS the ’80s, has died at 70. Pieters was known for his landmark terview wh televangelist Tammy Faye Baker on her broadst which went to lns of nservative Christians. Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers a life well lived. * gay and hiv aids *
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BETWEEN TWO PANMICS: OLR, GAY MEN'S EXPERIENC ACROSS HIV/AIDS AND COVID-19
The high percentage of gay and bisexual men who are livg wh HIV means that, as a group, they have a greater risk of beg exposed to HIV; browse lks here. * gay and hiv aids *
The film tails the activi of HIV/AIDS relief anizatns durg the early days of the epimic, wh a foc on APLA Health (formerly the Wt Hollywood-based AIDS Project Los Angel) and s work supportg the gay muny while leveragg the gild town’s starpower, and navigatg s secrecy.
Commment to Life featur footage of speech and performanc om celebri who threw their weight behd the gay muny durg the epimic, like Tom Hanks, Whney Hoton, Rob Williams and, of urse, Elizabeth Taylor. Together, they vividly reunt the terror and sorrow of the epimic, pictg a time of both great darkns and fierce, fiant joy and also relate a fear that the most paful legaci of the epimic—om AIDS patients languishg isolatn due to misrmatn and stigma, to public portrayals of the epimic as a “whe gay man’s disease” spe s outsized impact on muni of lor, to systemic health re and ernmental neglect—are beg fotten.
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STIGMA AND S ROLE HIV PREVENTN AND RE OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
Rearch has monstrated that gay and bisexual men livg wh HIV/AIDS are likely to experience both HIV stigma and gay-related stigma, which may e signifint psychologil strs. * gay and hiv aids *
Although ernments and health officials largely failed gay men durg the HIV/AIDS panmic, gay men reprent an important source of panmic rmatn and their experienc have much to offer health profsnals and policymakers. The current study drew on nstctivist ground theory methods to exame how livg through the HIV/AIDS panmic has fluenced olr gay men's perspectiv of COVID-19.