KTThis was what it was like working with gay men in the early 1980’s. I was working at Disneyland. These gay men, my friends, got sick, had to stop working and died.
Young men. Men at the height of their theater lifecycle, artists. we worried for Elton John. (Elton John is a living miracle.) You got AIDS, #HIV back then, you died. and so many men did catch it.
watch HBO’s, “And the band played on.” (super young Richard Gere playing a real NYC dance choreographer, who died at the height of his career.) and “Philadelphia,” with Tom Hanks and a young, (hot,) Denzel Washington.
Jenny, Forrest Gump’s pretty blonde wife, from the film “Forrest Gump,” died of AIDS. You didn’t know that? That’s because that is how it was. No one spoke about it.
People with blood disorders, people who got transfusions for whatever reason, gay men, nurses, anyone who worked around human blood, and anyone who reused needles for illegal drugs.
it was awful. it was like covid but only for a certain segment of our friends, and it killed them, nearly 100% of the time within five years. like a bad cancer, only a germ spread by intimate contact.
It was like that.
That’s why those of us who saw it celebrate PRIDE.
Because unlike Covid, the Republicans (Ronald Reagan,) did nothing, called it the “gay plague.”
So, a lot of really smart people got together world wide and worked really hard to save as many as they could.
It was a movement in California. A swelling of “fuck this,” and everyone running around with condoms waving them around like candy thrown at kids during parades.
and actual parades. PRIDE parades.
That is what the fascists in Florida and other places are fighting against.
They are saying, “not only do we refuse to take care of you, no one else can either. Not even other LGBTQIA people.”
That is fascism, my friends.
Fascists are the group that complains (screams they are being attacked,) when another group defend itself.
They, fascists, don’t want people they don’t like to be able to SELF DEFEND.
*****Every organism on earth has the right to self defense. Even single cell creatures fight back. ****
Be proud to fight anti-gay fascists, wherever you see them.
Have #PRIDE
Young men. Men at the height of their theater lifecycle, artists. we worried for Elton John. (Elton John is a living miracle.) You got AIDS, #HIV back then, you died. and so many men did catch it.
watch HBO’s, “And the band played on.” (super young Richard Gere playing a real NYC dance choreographer, who died at the height of his career.) and “Philadelphia,” with Tom Hanks and a young, (hot,) Denzel Washington.
Jenny, Forrest Gump’s pretty blonde wife, from the film “Forrest Gump,” died of AIDS. You didn’t know that? That’s because that is how it was. No one spoke about it.
People with blood disorders, people who got transfusions for whatever reason, gay men, nurses, anyone who worked around human blood, and anyone who reused needles for illegal drugs.
it was awful. it was like covid but only for a certain segment of our friends, and it killed them, nearly 100% of the time within five years. like a bad cancer, only a germ spread by intimate contact.
It was like that.
That’s why those of us who saw it celebrate PRIDE.
Because unlike Covid, the Republicans (Ronald Reagan,) did nothing, called it the “gay plague.”
So, a lot of really smart people got together world wide and worked really hard to save as many as they could.
It was a movement in California. A swelling of “fuck this,” and everyone running around with condoms waving them around like candy thrown at kids during parades.
and actual parades. PRIDE parades.
That is what the fascists in Florida and other places are fighting against.
They are saying, “not only do we refuse to take care of you, no one else can either. Not even other LGBTQIA people.”
That is fascism, my friends.
Fascists are the group that complains (screams they are being attacked,) when another group defend itself.
They, fascists, don’t want people they don’t like to be able to SELF DEFEND.
*****Every organism on earth has the right to self defense. Even single cell creatures fight back. ****
Be proud to fight anti-gay fascists, wherever you see them.
Have #PRIDE
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