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...
When Elon Musk and his cadre of juvenile tech bros took a chainsaw to the U.S. federal government this year, they said they were out to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. It just so happens that most of the departments they slashed were either regulatory bodies with statutory authority to regulate Musk’s businesses or agencies that had run afoul of President Donald Trump’s vision for a less inclusive America. At the top of the list: The United States Agency for International Development, which...
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...
