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Today: And The Band Played On
A book by journalist Randy Shilts, adapted into a movie about the rise of AIDS in the 1980s & the part politics, bureaucracy & homophobia played in the failed response to the crisis.
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The movie And the Band Played On was made in 1993 & told through protagonist Don Francis â an epidemiologist with the CDC who worked on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak in 1976.
In 1981, Francis became aware of a growing number of deaths in gay men in LA, NY & SFO.
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The movie And the Band Played On was made in 1993 & told through protagonist Don Francis â an epidemiologist with the CDC who worked on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak in 1976.
In 1981, Francis became aware of a growing number of deaths in gay men in LA, NY & SFO.
#Pride
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The movie And the Band Played On (1993), is told through protagonist Don Francis played by @MatthewModine an epidemiologist w/the CDC who worked on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak.
In 1981, Francis becomes aware of a growing number of deaths in gay men in LA, NY & SFO.
The movie And the Band Played On (1993), is told through protagonist Don Francis played by @MatthewModine an epidemiologist w/the CDC who worked on the frontlines of the Ebola outbreak.
In 1981, Francis becomes aware of a growing number of deaths in gay men in LA, NY & SFO.
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In the conservative 1980s, AIDS was dismissed as the "gay plagueâ or the âgay cancer.â
The US government initially did nothing and was excruciatingly slow to react.
With a near 100% mortality rate, men were dying horrible deaths and essentially abandoned by our government.
In the conservative 1980s, AIDS was dismissed as the "gay plagueâ or the âgay cancer.â
The US government initially did nothing and was excruciatingly slow to react.
With a near 100% mortality rate, men were dying horrible deaths and essentially abandoned by our government.
Jun 1981
A NY dermatologist noted a cluster of men suffering from an aggressive skin cancer
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A govt epidemiological report 5 men had been diagnosed w/a rare lung infection in LA.
A strange âCancerâ marked the infected men w/purple lesions & death was by a strange new pneumonia.
A NY dermatologist noted a cluster of men suffering from an aggressive skin cancer
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A govt epidemiological report 5 men had been diagnosed w/a rare lung infection in LA.
A strange âCancerâ marked the infected men w/purple lesions & death was by a strange new pneumonia.
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A year later, researchers had made "the first connection between a potential sexually transmitted agent" in ill patients & it was finally namedâAIDS.
It had been called GRIDâGay Related Immune Disease, which stigmatized it even further & turned the public against the disease.
A year later, researchers had made "the first connection between a potential sexually transmitted agent" in ill patients & it was finally namedâAIDS.
It had been called GRIDâGay Related Immune Disease, which stigmatized it even further & turned the public against the disease.
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There were no tests & no treatment for yearsâ until it was no longer a gay disease.
3 years later, 12,500 people were dead from AIDS & 13 y/o Ryan White, a hemophiliac who contracted AIDS following a blood transfusion, was banned from school in Indiana.
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There were no tests & no treatment for yearsâ until it was no longer a gay disease.
3 years later, 12,500 people were dead from AIDS & 13 y/o Ryan White, a hemophiliac who contracted AIDS following a blood transfusion, was banned from school in Indiana.
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The Reagan admin publicly opposed policies "promoting or encouraging, directly or indirectly, homosexual activitiesâ & blocked Congress & health officials from educating the US about AIDS.
Reagan wouldnât even say the word AIDSâTrump calls #COVID19 the âWuhan Virusâ & âKung Fluâ
Reagan wouldnât even say the word AIDSâTrump calls #COVID19 the âWuhan Virusâ & âKung Fluâ
Misinformation, division, bigotry, fear, & panic outlined AIIDSâ early days.
It wasnât until the wealthy, blood transfusion patients, children & infants contracted the disease, that AIDS gained the serious attn & treatment it needed from the start.
It wasnât until the wealthy, blood transfusion patients, children & infants contracted the disease, that AIDS gained the serious attn & treatment it needed from the start.
Both the book & movie incorrectly depicts a promiscuous gay man asâPatient Zeroâ named GaĂŤtan Dugas, who was wrongly blamed for bringing AIDS to the US.
This has been proven false thru genetic studies of the virusâAIDS showed up in the US in the 1970s
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/america-hiv-outbreak-origins-nyc-gaetan-dugas
This has been proven false thru genetic studies of the virusâAIDS showed up in the US in the 1970s
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/america-hiv-outbreak-origins-nyc-gaetan-dugas
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The bureaucracy by both the medical community and US government failed to enact testing the US blood supply for years despite 89% of those who received tainted blood, would contract AIDS.
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The bureaucracy by both the medical community and US government failed to enact testing the US blood supply for years despite 89% of those who received tainted blood, would contract AIDS.
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After blood screening was finally enacted, LGBT+ were banned for decades from donating blood.
This was only lifted 3 months ago due to severe shortages due to #COVID19
Now LGBT+ arenât being allowed to donate #COVID19 antibodies after recovery. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/25/dillon-barron-gay-doctor-chicago-coronavirus-covid-19-plasma-blood-donation/
After blood screening was finally enacted, LGBT+ were banned for decades from donating blood.
This was only lifted 3 months ago due to severe shortages due to #COVID19
Now LGBT+ arenât being allowed to donate #COVID19 antibodies after recovery. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/25/dillon-barron-gay-doctor-chicago-coronavirus-covid-19-plasma-blood-donation/
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Dr. Fauci who focused on HIV & AIDS for much of his career, said disproportionate death rates due to #COVID19 among African Americans in the current pandemic reminded him of stigma against the gay community during the early days of HIV & AIDS.
#Pride https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-04-29/hiv-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic-carries-echoes-of-early-aids-crisis
Dr. Fauci who focused on HIV & AIDS for much of his career, said disproportionate death rates due to #COVID19 among African Americans in the current pandemic reminded him of stigma against the gay community during the early days of HIV & AIDS.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-04-29/hiv-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic-carries-echoes-of-early-aids-crisis
With the emergence of #COVID19, face masks are the new wear a condom from the 80âs.
It took a massive effort to educate the public on wearing condoms bc they carried a stigma of disease.
Their use only increased after Stiltâs book& the surgeon generalâs report came out in 1987.
It took a massive effort to educate the public on wearing condoms bc they carried a stigma of disease.
Their use only increased after Stiltâs book& the surgeon generalâs report came out in 1987.
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HIV & AIDS contamination occurs through bodily fluids: blood, semen, vaginal fluids & breast milk. Itâs not airborne.
Itâs spread through unprotected sex, shared needles or tainted blood.
In addition to the aboveâCOVID19 is spread through air particulates & surface contact
HIV & AIDS contamination occurs through bodily fluids: blood, semen, vaginal fluids & breast milk. Itâs not airborne.
Itâs spread through unprotected sex, shared needles or tainted blood.
In addition to the aboveâCOVID19 is spread through air particulates & surface contact
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The common similarity with both AIDS & #COVID19 is an initial lack of decisive, effective leadership from the White House. Both responses were abysmal and deadly.
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#LGBTVoices https://twitter.com/capaction/status/1240321663901863952?s=21
The common similarity with both AIDS & #COVID19 is an initial lack of decisive, effective leadership from the White House. Both responses were abysmal and deadly.
#Pride
#LGBTVoices https://twitter.com/capaction/status/1240321663901863952?s=21
40 years later, thereâs still 38 million people in the world infected with HIV & AIDS, & 1 million will die of AIDS related illnesses each year.
Thereâs no vaccineâonly drug therapies such as PrEP.
Weâre over 2.5 Million cases & 127,000 deaths of #COVID19 in the US in just 6 mos
Thereâs no vaccineâonly drug therapies such as PrEP.
Weâre over 2.5 Million cases & 127,000 deaths of #COVID19 in the US in just 6 mos
Said 40 yrs ago about AIDSânot COVID:
A new contagion sweeping thru a nation
Loved ones dying of a virus in isolation
Denial & indifference in WA DC despite alarmed health experts as the death toll rises
Division & misinformation eclipse science & reason https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gay-and-lesbian-well-being/202003/comparing-covid-19-and-aids-gay-male-perspective
A new contagion sweeping thru a nation
Loved ones dying of a virus in isolation
Denial & indifference in WA DC despite alarmed health experts as the death toll rises
Division & misinformation eclipse science & reason https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gay-and-lesbian-well-being/202003/comparing-covid-19-and-aids-gay-male-perspective
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And the Band Played Onâs late author Randy Shilts, who was the 1 of the 1st openly gay journalists, wrote these words in 1989, but theyâre devastatingly prophetic to the Trump adminâs criminally inadequate response to the #COVID19 pandemic today:
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And the Band Played Onâs late author Randy Shilts, who was the 1 of the 1st openly gay journalists, wrote these words in 1989, but theyâre devastatingly prophetic to the Trump adminâs criminally inadequate response to the #COVID19 pandemic today:
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