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sandensea

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13. 35 years already. Reagan should have been tried for human rights abuses for letting AIDS snowball.

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Wed Jul 4, 2018, 01:25 AM

Jul 2018

Brings to mind watching 'And the Band Played On' in 1993, which is set in the early 1980s.

While controversial in some ways, it really captured the indifference and hostility during the Reagan administration toward the AIDS crisis at the time.

As Dr. C. Everett Koop pointed out, the administration, from Reagan himself on down, viewed AIDS as a problem that only affected "homosexuals and i.v. drug users" - and therefore not fit to be addressed at all.

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37 Years Ago: RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS [View all] Behind the Aegis Jul 2018 OP

K&R... spanone Jul 2018 #1

I do Solly Mack Jul 2018 #2

I remember. Kali Jul 2018 #3

I remember melman Jul 2018 #4

K&R sheshe2 Jul 2018 #5

K&R FreeState Jul 2018 #6

My husband's best friend, died 1996 stopwastingmymoney Jul 2018 #7

I remember Hekate Jul 2018 #8

Boy, where they wrong. dewsgirl Jul 2018 #9

K&R smirkymonkey Jul 2018 #10

That article convinced my mother to ask my father for a divorce. pnwmom Jul 2018 #11

and during that time Reagan was slashing the healthcare budget, cutting funding from AIDS programs, still_one Jul 2018 #12

still_one,....I had no idea that Diane Feinstein did what you just Upthevibe Jul 2018 #17

Could you please make an OP about this history of Feinstein's? pnwmom Jul 2018 #18

That is cool about Sen. Feinstein... SkyDaddy7 Jul 2018 #20

35 years already. Reagan should have been tried for human rights abuses for letting AIDS snowball. sandensea Jul 2018 #13

It was actually 37 years ago Metro135 Jul 2018 #14

You are correct. Behind the Aegis Jul 2018 #22

My cousin was one of the first... and I will always remember - n/t lapfog_1 Jul 2018 #15

My cousin wasn't one of the first but he was one of the early ones. braddy Jul 2018 #16

My cousin was also one of the first to die. pazzyanne Jul 2018 #19

Remember it so clear MFM008 Jul 2018 #21