In the early 1980s, the LGBTQ movement experienced the first tremors of a shockwave that would shake its very foundations. A disease outbreak diagnosed in just five gay men in Los Angeles in 1981 would eventually claim the lives of more than 700,000 Americans. Nearly 60% of the dead would be gay or bisexual men. It was the beginning of a global pandemic: AIDS — the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. To mark World AIDS Day — December First — journalist David Hunt revisits a story he first co...
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In the early 1980s, the LGBTQ movement experienced the first tremors of a shockwave that would shake its very foundations. A disease outbreak diagnosed in just five gay men in Los Angeles in 1981 would eventually claim the lives of more than 700,000 Americans. Nearly 60% of the dead would be gay or bisexual men. It was the beginning of a global pandemic: AIDS — the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. To mark World AIDS Day — December First — journalist David Hunt revisits a story he first co...
In its attacks on transgender Americans, the Trump administration is attempting to erase the T in LGBTQ — removing the initial from websites, publications and even the signage outside the Stonewall National Monument, where trans activists led the 1969 rebellion that launched the modern gay rights movement in the United States. To counter the hate and transphobia promoted by the administration, far-right politicians and media outlets, one New York college student is exploring the history and j...
Tell Me, David
In the early 1980s, the LGBTQ movement experienced the first tremors of a shockwave that would shake its very foundations. A disease outbreak diagnosed in just five gay men in Los Angeles in 1981 would eventually claim the lives of more than 700,000 Americans. Nearly 60% of the dead would be gay or bisexual men. It was the beginning of a global pandemic: AIDS — the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. To mark World AIDS Day — December First — journalist David Hunt revisits a story he first co...
