We started with HIV. We developed the platforms, applied it to coronavirus. And now we’re trying to close the loop.
"AIDS is not just a Hollywood disease. And it is not just a gay disease. This is the health crisis of this century."
"It’s time to take what we’ve learned from coronavirus and take it back to HIV and build upon from what we have learned.”
Over a third of them have died. It's known as "gay plague." (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it's a pretty serious thing [...]
HIV-related stigma, homophobia and transphobia, and lack of access create equity gaps in HIV prevention, testing, and treatment
"This horrible disease afflicts members of one of the nation's most stigmatized and discriminated-against minorities."
"If this article doesn’t rouse you to anger, fury, rage, and action, gay men may have no future on this earth..."
Speaker Pelosi & Congresswoman Lee laid a wreath at the Memorial, joined by San Francisco Mayor Breed & National AIDS Memorial CEO Cunningham
Media painted the mysterious new diseases as Gay-Related Immunodeficiency Disease (GRID) or as it was more commonly called: the "gay plague."
Even though changing these outdated, ineffective and discriminatory laws is common-sense progress, this is a move in the right direction