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LGBTQ History Month: The Early Days of America’s AIDS Crisis

By Tim Fitzsimons — 2018

From Reagan’s press secretary laughing about the AIDs crisis to the activist group ACT UP shutting down the FDA, we look back at the early days of the epidemic.

Read on www.nbcnews.com

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How HIV Impacts LGBTQ+ People

While HIV affects Americans from all walks of life, the epidemic continues to disproportionately impact certain members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Human Rights Campaign
2017
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DaBaby Probably Won’t Take the Time to Read This. You Should.

The truth about HIV, AIDS, and the gay community is easy to find. Here are some facts the rapper failed to collect before spitting homophobia.

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Justin Kirkland
2021
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It’s a Sin: How the Media Fueled the Homophobic Response to the HIV Crisis

The impact of media sensationalism on people living with HIV—and even institutions—was of shock and shame.

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Damien Ridge
2021
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Beyond ‘He’ or ‘She’: The Changing Meaning of Gender and Sexuality

Hyperindividual, you-do-you young people from across the U.S. are upending the convention that when it comes to gender and sexuality, there are only two options for each: male or female, gay or straight.

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Katy Steinmetz
2017
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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Belonging to Ourselves and Each Other

Creating spaces where the need to assimilate, conform, and belong are no longer important

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La Sarmiento
2019
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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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The Movement to Exclude Trans Girls from Sports

The opposition is cast as one between cis-girl athletes on the one hand and a vast liberal conspiracy on the other.

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Masha Gessen
2021
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When this Gay College Soccer Player Was Called a Slur by an Opponent, His Team Rallied around Him to a 5–0 Win

Couper Gunn had talked openly with his team about gay slurs and their impact on him. It impacted him that night.

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Cyd Zeigler
2021
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Many LGBTQ Seniors Don’t Get the Health and End-of-Life Care They Need. Some Coloradans Are Working to Change That

According to a study recently published in The Gerontologist, older people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer often face discrimination during end-of-life care. They’re also more likely to have their health care wishes ignored or disregarded.

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Claire Cleveland
2021
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