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punk girls photographed by shirley baker, 1983.

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Neo Matsuoka, from Photographers Index 1 (1985)

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Paul Harris, 1982

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FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF (1986), dir. John Hughes

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Hoog Catharijne shopping Mall, Utrecht (1981)

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Aly Dunne for Lanvin RTW FW 1988

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“I am quite aware of the chance that I have or will have AIDS. The odds are very great and, in fact, the symptoms already exist. My friends are dropping like flies and I know in my heart that it is only divine intervention that has kept me alive this long. I don’t know if I have five months or five years, but I know my days are numbered. This is why my activities and projects are so important now. To do as much as possible as quickly as possible. I’m sure that what will live on after I die is important enough to make sacrifices of my personal luxury and leisure time. Work is all I have and art is more important than life.”

— Keith Haring, Keith Haring Journals

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As an 80s account, I would be remised if I didn’t acknowledge and talk about the AIDS Epidemic on this page. Keith Haring’s words demonstrate just how scary the 1980s and beyond were for many gay people as the U.S. government seemingly did not care about their lives at all. Though I do not want to “dampen” everyone’s high spirits on the first day of Pride Month, I just want to make others aware of one of the reasons why this month exists and how far LGBTQ+ people have come.

Take a minute to think about those who have lost their lives to AIDS and cannot celebrate pride with us all today.