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‘We Were so Scared’: Four People Who Faced the Horror of AIDS in the 80s

By Andrew Anthony — 2021

TV drama It’s a Sin looked back at a dark era for the gay community. Here, some of those who remember it tell of the real-life agony—and the hope

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Speaking of Psychology: The History of LGBTQ Psychology from Stonewall to Now, with Peter Hegarty, PhD

Over the past decades, the focus of LGBTQ activism has shifted and evolved, from the AIDS crisis in the 1980s to the fight for marriage equality to the focus on transgender rights today.

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American Psychological Association
2021
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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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LGBTQ History Month: The Early Days of America’s AIDS Crisis

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.

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Tim Fitzsimons
2018
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Jonathan Van Ness on Being HIV Positive: “It Gave Me a Reason to Really Fight”

The charismatic star of hit TV show Queer Eye had a troubled and chaotic early life. Here, for the first time, he talks about his life with the virus.

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Aaron Hicklin
2019
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How to Demand a Medical Breakthrough: Lessons from the AIDS Fight

AIDS activist group ACT UP organized numerous protests on Wall Street in the 1980s. The group’s tactics helped speed the process of finding an effective treatment for AIDS.

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Nurith Aizenman
2019
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AIDS in the ’80s: The Rise of a New Civil Rights Movement

The LGBT community often had to fill in gaps in care as so many gay men died and others were isolated

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Jen Christensen
2016
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Why Do Gay Men Have an Increased Risk of HIV?

It’s not primarily high-risk behavior that puts gay men at such a high risk of HIV. It’s a higher susceptibility due to the type of sexual encounters as well as limitations in access to care.

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Elizabeth Boskey
2020
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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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Interview: Sharon Kleinbaum

In conversation with Sharon Kleinbaum, Senior Rabbi at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.

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New York City AIDS Memorial staff
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