#aids ment

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(original by caseyincontext, she/they)

[mangobisexual]

i once got into an instagram argument with someone who said "gay people created aids" on a post celebrating gay marriage and called me a heterophobe when i said they were being homophobic

heterophobia is real wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! once i watched 12 dykes beat up a group of straight girls its oppression :/

[yokune-ruko]

i wish the poc inclusive pride flag would have just brown, or black at the bottom, since the black stripe already has a meaning as a tribute to those who have died of aids

[the-ace-community]

Ace Positivity!

A-Spec people are amazing and valid and honestly so wonderful! If only the gays had listened to us during the AIDS crisis and stopped having dirty sex maybe they wouldn't have died!!!!

Shoutout to all my amazing aces and aros! You're great!!!

[mindflamer]

i was watching this video about st being nina project videos

this stuck out to me: "it's important to not just see your past, but to fully re-experience it. in doing so, i believe we can repair your broken signals."

stranger things was created around 80s nostalgia. many people are quite literally, re-living their past through watching it. but it leaves out of the main text (only subtext so far), a critical part of the 80s. one which greatly affects our main characters and one which many people likely didn't pay much attention to unless they were personally affected. homophobia and the AIDS crisis created a traumatizing period for the queer community; a stain on their comforting 80s nostalgia. the story is not complete without bringing it to the surface - to see ALL of the 80s. the parts they ignored or even perpetuated. to fix the "broken signals" - the homophobia that still lingers in society.

[mindflamer]

original by catgsally (they/them)

[mindflamer]

this may be a stupid question but i've never seen it explained. in discussions about the aids epidemic in the gay community, it's often talked about how lesbians helped care for gay men who were sick. is this referring to only lesbians in the modern sense of the word, or also bisexual women in the modern sense? i know the term lesbian used to encompass both, but i thought that changed earlier than that time period (maybe i'm wrong). and if it doesn't include bisexual women, are there reasons we know of why they weren't also doing this?

[mindflamer]

still thinking about it's a sin (2021) and how much, sadly, i related to certain elements they showed about the early days of aids, having experienced the covid pandemic as a disabled person (i.e., one of the groups most at risk and dismissed, in some ways similar to the positionality of gay men in the early aids epidemic). the fear and confusion of a danger that you can't see and you don't know how to protect yourself from it. the gaslighting that you have nothing to worry about. the frantic search for accurate information that the govt/media isn't sharing. the world not caring if you live or die. there's of course much that is different too, i don't want to make it sound like they're the same, but it really connected with me in a new way because i don't think i've watched anything related to aids since before the covid pandemic.