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G'MORN
saw that the person who prompted this thread deleted their tweet
hope they find a kickass name for their company and become wildly successful
want this to be a reminder to y'all Millennials:
KNOW
OUR
AIDS
HISTORY
because queer history is our history front & center
1/ https://twitter.com/blogdiva/status/1183933007243153409
saw that the person who prompted this thread deleted their tweet
hope they find a kickass name for their company and become wildly successful
want this to be a reminder to y'all Millennials:
KNOW
OUR
AIDS
HISTORY
because queer history is our history front & center
1/ https://twitter.com/blogdiva/status/1183933007243153409
AIDS *IS*
INTERSECTIONALITY
i am so old, i remember the first cases were happening in PRISONS and people did not know what it was back then
MASS INCARCERATION meant literally disappearing in prisons millions who should have had medical attention for their heroin addictions
2/
INTERSECTIONALITY
i am so old, i remember the first cases were happening in PRISONS and people did not know what it was back then
MASS INCARCERATION meant literally disappearing in prisons millions who should have had medical attention for their heroin addictions
2/
A RARE
PNEUMONIA
EPIDEMIC
that's what they called it at the beginning, because people were getting "the flu", then getting pneumonia and with months or even weeks, dying
the AIDS epidemic is Reaganism and Bushism at it's most diabolical: they used the deaths to hype EUGENICS
PNEUMONIA
EPIDEMIC
that's what they called it at the beginning, because people were getting "the flu", then getting pneumonia and with months or even weeks, dying
the AIDS epidemic is Reaganism and Bushism at it's most diabolical: they used the deaths to hype EUGENICS
Reagan & Bush used AIDS to rile up their cryptofascist base
if abortion defined the Neoconfederacy, AIDS gave the wannabe WASPs of the "north" a reason to coalesce around their Ivy League libertarianism and eugenics disguised as neoliberal economics
AIDS as population control
if abortion defined the Neoconfederacy, AIDS gave the wannabe WASPs of the "north" a reason to coalesce around their Ivy League libertarianism and eugenics disguised as neoliberal economics
AIDS as population control
PNEUMONIA
that's what for years we were told it was. that's what my aunt was told when one of my cousins died.
he wasn't gay, mind you
he was thrown in prison for being a heroin addict
PNEUMONIA
do you have any idea how many Vietnam veterans died of AIDS?
and women...
that's what for years we were told it was. that's what my aunt was told when one of my cousins died.
he wasn't gay, mind you
he was thrown in prison for being a heroin addict
PNEUMONIA
do you have any idea how many Vietnam veterans died of AIDS?
and women...
PUERTO RICAN &
BLACK WOMEN
THE 2nd & 3rd
AIDS DEMOGRAPHICS
in that order and from the La Isla, not just La Diáspora
no, they weren't all sex workers or transwomen ―who were disproportionately hit within the LGBTQI
cis/hetero Puerto Rican women were dropping like flies
BLACK WOMEN
THE 2nd & 3rd
AIDS DEMOGRAPHICS
in that order and from the La Isla, not just La Diáspora
no, they weren't all sex workers or transwomen ―who were disproportionately hit within the LGBTQI
cis/hetero Puerto Rican women were dropping like flies
ACT UP IS WHY
OUTING BECAME
POLITICIZED
when i say that @actupny saved the lives of too many of your GenX moms and aunties, i am not being facetious:
machismo & closeted homosexuality go hand in hand and many MARRIED CISGENDER HETEROSEXUAL women were dying of AIDS due to it
OUTING BECAME
POLITICIZED
when i say that @actupny saved the lives of too many of your GenX moms and aunties, i am not being facetious:
machismo & closeted homosexuality go hand in hand and many MARRIED CISGENDER HETEROSEXUAL women were dying of AIDS due to it
ACT UP WAS LIKE A
QUEER GUERRILLA
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
i came back to NYC literally after i turned 20
my whole sex life as a young adult was marked by the deaths of family & friends & neighbors
do you know that giving out condoms was literally ILLEGAL in many states & Pto Rico?
QUEER GUERRILLA
PLANNED PARENTHOOD
i came back to NYC literally after i turned 20
my whole sex life as a young adult was marked by the deaths of family & friends & neighbors
do you know that giving out condoms was literally ILLEGAL in many states & Pto Rico?
GIVING OUT CONDOMS COULD LAND YOU IN JAILso you have to understand the enormity of our LQBTQI fam, putting their bodies on the line after one too many bombings of Planned Parenthood clinics
because giving out condoms was a radical act that saved lives
1980s & 1990s
WAS PEAK
WHITE
EVANGELICAL
TERRORISM
Planned Parenthood clinics became the defacto health care providers for folks with AIDS without insurance and nowhere to go
and it became another good reason for Republicans rile their white evangelical terrorist base
WAS PEAK
WHITE
EVANGELICAL
TERRORISM
Planned Parenthood clinics became the defacto health care providers for folks with AIDS without insurance and nowhere to go
and it became another good reason for Republicans rile their white evangelical terrorist base
that ACT!UP centered LGBTQI death, anger, and bereavement in a time USA Presidents said if you die of AIDS is not only your fault, but god's will
IS
EXACTLY
WHY
IT WAS
NECESSARY
it was a FUCK YOU to using the "gay plague" to normalize white supremacist violence
IS
EXACTLY
WHY
IT WAS
NECESSARY
it was a FUCK YOU to using the "gay plague" to normalize white supremacist violence
THAT IN MEDIA
ACT UP HAS BEEN
A "WHITE GAY"
MOVEMENT?
what don't they describe as white cisgender and homo/heterosexual in this country?
there is no Stonewall without Black & Puerto Rican transgender women because there are no radical political movements in the US without them
ACT UP HAS BEEN
A "WHITE GAY"
MOVEMENT?
what don't they describe as white cisgender and homo/heterosexual in this country?
there is no Stonewall without Black & Puerto Rican transgender women because there are no radical political movements in the US without them
i started this thread as a warning to Millennials,
but this is also a call to action to my GenXer peers:
we who have survived our dead are now the Elders
we have a responsibility to tell their stories, to tell our stories and remind the younger generations
NEVER FORGET
but this is also a call to action to my GenXer peers:
we who have survived our dead are now the Elders
we have a responsibility to tell their stories, to tell our stories and remind the younger generations
NEVER FORGET
ps: i went to bed crying and cried writing this thread
when you get to 53, you start mourning all your dead but i reckon daily
systemic FASCIST violence passing as GOP conservative values and Democrats' moderate politics killed them
KNOW YOUR ENEMY https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1184104499197202433
when you get to 53, you start mourning all your dead but i reckon daily
systemic FASCIST violence passing as GOP conservative values and Democrats' moderate politics killed them
KNOW YOUR ENEMY https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1184104499197202433
