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Tag: aids history

neneh cherry

The Songs I Loved: Neneh Cherry’s “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”

almost 10 years into the AIDS epidemic, and only 4 years removed from the first time president reagan uttered the…
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Posted on: September 1, 2020 Last updated on: September 1, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Puerto Rican Day Parade 1990

in september 1990, the first queer contingent marched in philadelphia’s 26th annual puerto rican day parade. organized and led by…
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Posted on: June 14, 2020 Last updated on: June 14, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

KIYOSHI KUROMIYA

in the late 1980’s, the only approved hiv treatment medication available was AZT. when it hit the market in 1987,…
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Posted on: May 9, 2020 Last updated on: May 9, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

How To Survive A Plague Again: The Denver Principles

About two week ago, I did the very rare thing of going live on Instagram. I asked my comrade and…
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Posted on: April 9, 2020 Last updated on: April 11, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Quick History of how AIDS Ended AYDS, The Diet Supplement

last week social media was abuzz with the “reports” that corona, the beer that i drink when i have too…
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Posted on: March 13, 2020 Last updated on: March 13, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

DAVID COLE

in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, david cole, one half of c&c music factory, wrote and produced some of…
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Posted on: February 28, 2020 Last updated on: March 22, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

All Of The Promises I Made To Tina

On July 3 1981, The New York Times printed an article with the headline “Rare Cancer seen in 41 homosexuals.”…
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Posted on: July 3, 2018 Last updated on: January 15, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

Remember June 5, 1981

on june 5, 1981, the center for disease control (cdc) published an article in its morbidity and mortality weekly report…
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Posted on: June 5, 2018 Last updated on: January 14, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie

My Thank You To Pedro Zamora

Pedro Zamora (February 29, 1972 – November 11, 1994), was one of the earliest stars of reality TV. He was…
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Posted on: February 28, 2018 Last updated on: April 6, 2020 Comments: 0 Written by: louie
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