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.
Contents:
- HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
- HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT
HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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Gay and bisexual men n take the followg steps to rce their risk of HIV fectn:. It was noted early on that young gay men were most likely to receive an HIV diagnosis; a sendary populatn of needle-g dg abers was quickly intified as an at-risk patient group. Given the soclogil parameters of known HIV patients 1982, early scientists labeled the group of mystery illns as a gay-related immune ficiency, gay ncer or muny-acquired immune dysfunctn.
Dg ers and homosexuals bore the bnt of the discrimatn.
In one natnal broadst, televangelist Jerry Falwell echoed the sentiments of some nservative Amerins by clarg God had sent AIDS as retributn for the ss of dg g and gay muni. Bathho and clubs terg to gay clientele were closed down, and law enforcement personnel were issued glov and masks to protect them agast potential exposure.
HIV/AIDS AND EDUTN: LSONS OM THE 1980S AND THE GAY MALE COMMUNY THE UNED STAT
In most of Ai, public opn was backed by the learship of Ain policians who refed to acknowledge the existence of sex between men, let alone a health crisis that affected a natn's homosexual populatn. In many untri, homosexualy was and still is a crimal act; was not unmon for early AIDS activists to end up jail.
In untri where the gay social work operated unrground, reachg the populatn wh lifavg tn and antiretrovirals was near impossible. While HIV and AIDS had been noted sexually active heterosexual groups central Ain untri om the earlit days of the epimic, popular opn that HIV was largely ntaed to gay muni endured well to the 2000s.
Whatever else may be, AIDS is a story, or multiple stori, and read to a surprisg extent om a text that do not exist: the body of the male homosexual. In 1980, Ken Horne, a gay sex worker San Francis, California, beme the first person to be diagnosed wh acquired immune ficiency syndrome (AIDS) the Uned Stat.