This article (from 2016) is a useful personal reflection on the horrors of the Reagan years, and how it wasn’t just “fiscal conservatism” or whatever lie people nowadays like to tell themselves. Deadly homophobia was only one facet of the hate directed towards out-groups in that era.
@histoftech.bsky.social“In 1987 Ronald Reagan finally made a policy speech declaring AIDS to be a high public health priority. On the very same day, he gutted the budget earmarked to study the disease and care for those afflicted with it. 41,000 Americans were dead.”
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Jermaine Stewart, AIDS, and the Anti-Sex Backlash of the 1980s by Cheryl Graham — March Sadness 90s Edition
