#cw aids

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

"and maybe you're right and we should stop watching the news, 'cause baby, i've never seen brown eyes look so blue" but it's mike and will in the 90's during the aids crisis.

[thelambliesdown1974]

okay American psycho novel question for my constituents……. How are we interpreting the black tie dress code in the Tunnel? Walking in they see all men are in waistcoats for a reason Patrick can’t understand, price having to pay off the bouncer to let them in and Owen later asking why he isn’t in a tux.

The tunnel wasn’t an exclusively gay club, but did notably host AIDS benefits in the later half of the decade according to some awesome 2006 html sites. There was at least one black tie fundraising event in 1987 that I can confirm in the times. It’s brought more than a couple times in the chapter, though I’m not familiar enough with the 1980s metrosexual club scene to draw any conclusions. Food 4 thot……………🍴

[cowpokezuko]

Unlikely Lovers.

[weirdsociology]

got to the part in the emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer where the author is talking about the start of the AIDS epidemic, and how oncologists were the first doctors to try and treat it, bc of course it first showed up as kaposi's sarcoma

and now i'm crying at my desk about how the first real AIDS clinic in san francisco threw the rules of a hospital ward out the window and let anyone - friends, lovers, family - stay in cots next to patients to help them through the night, that many of the nurses were gay men who came to help their friends and later came back as patients, and how the ward hosted drag brunches every sunday and gave out pot brownies, anything to keep their patients alive and in the fight enough that they could try and figure out how to help

[lailoken]

I think it's good to remember that, while the term "Ancestor Work" most generally denotes working with the spirits of deceased family members and progenitors, it can also very much include working with those who aren't related to you in a direct familial capacity.

This grave belongs to an uncle of my husband's who passed away a few years before either of us was born. But when we happen to be in the general area of his cemetery, we almost always visit in order to tidy his gravesite and leave him offerings. We also go there for his birthday whenever we can. Though he may be a stranger to us in some ways, he is the one brother of my father-in-law's many siblings who he had a loving relationship with, and his imprint upon our lives is very much felt to this day.

He was my father-in-law's big brother, but he was his dearest friend and trusted protectector as well. He was also openly gay in a rural Missouri logging town, during a time when being gay was still a very dangerous thing to be. He sadly ended up passing away fairly young, and because of that, we never got the chance to truly know him. But because of him, my father-in-law readily accepted my husband when he realized he was gay, and he never allowed anyone around them—in the family or outside it—to speak ill of queer people. What's more, early on in our relationship, we experienced a few portentous occurences that brought us together, which we later learned were each closely connected with the memory of this uncle in some way. For all these reasons, we often think of him as a "guardian spirit" of our relationship, and I very much consider his spirit one that is important to me within the context of what I would call Ancestor Work.

[dailyhistoryposts]

On This Day In History

June 5th, 1981: The CDC’s Weekly Report mentions five patients in Los Angeles, USA, with the same rare form of pneumonia. This would be the first report of HIV/AIDS.

[the-sappho-of-lesbos]

Source: How Can You Write A Poem When You’re Dying Of AIDS? , edited by John Harold

[velvetvexations]

It was not until 1985 that the first cases of AIDS were officially reported in Japan. As early as 1983, however, Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare was notified by Baxter Travenol Laboratories (BTL) that it was manufacturing a new blood product, licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which was heat-treated to kill HIV. BTL was interested in licensing this new product in Japan. The Green Cross Corporation, the main Japanese provider of blood products, protested that this would constitute unfair competition, as it was "not prepared to make heat-treated agents itself".

Man if I read that in someone else's book I would have thought it was a cheap and cliché shot at corporate inhumanity, and so over the top as to be unbelievable.