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...
Trans Journalist Unpacks Trump's Anti-Trans Orders
Tell Me, David
16 minutes
9 months ago
Trans Journalist Unpacks Trump's Anti-Trans Orders
Trans journalist Erin Reed covers a beat that hits close to home: Republican attacks on trans people across the United States. She’s a respected independent voice with a large following on social media, where her work has been viewed more than 250 million times in recent years. Reed met Jan. 30, 2025, with a group of trans people and their supporters to review the growing list of anti-trans executive orders coming out of the Trump White House. In this feature, which originally aired on ...
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...
