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Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:22 pm to Lonnie Utah
If you weren’t gay people didn’t really worry about it too much. Straight people mainly feared contracting it through blood infusions. I’m sure if you were growing up in LA, San Fran or New York it probably felt more like a clear and present danger. I was in my teens and twenties but to most people in the South it was an afterthought although we were aware of the impact that it was having in certain areas.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:24 pm to braves21
I'm 25, but many of my mentors in medical school were residents or practicing during that time. There was definitely a lot of fear towards it. If you contracted it, you were dead. As bad as it was, the hysteria surrounding it can definitely be compared to COVID minus the lockdowns, mainly stemming from not knowing anything about the virus. People were scared to touch AIDS patients, so it was a big deal when Diana shook hands with an AIDS patient without gloves. Everyone initially thought it was only contracted through gay sex. Magic Johnson and Arthur Ashe disproved that.
It's amazing that we are able to manage it now to the point where you can have undetectable viral load
It's amazing that we are able to manage it now to the point where you can have undetectable viral load
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:25 pm to 4LSU2
Yes, bird nest were a thing, but they were manicured
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:26 pm to braves21
It was the man on man butt sex that caused it.
Covid was a close second though to gay butt sex.
There were all sorts of people that believed that if they allowed non vax family members to come over, it would make the world sick. It was pretty much exactly the mentality of wanting to have gay butt sex
Covid was a close second though to gay butt sex.
There were all sorts of people that believed that if they allowed non vax family members to come over, it would make the world sick. It was pretty much exactly the mentality of wanting to have gay butt sex
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:26 pm to braves21
Born in 1976. AIDS in the 80s was no big deal because I wasnt getting any pussy back then.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:27 pm to BU Bear In BR
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Everyone initially thought it was only contracted through gay sex. Magic Johnson and Arthur Ashe disproved that.
Arthur Ashe got it from a blood transfusion during heart surgery.
Magic got it from gay sex.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:28 pm to SlowFlowPro
Wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom and see " Welcome to the real world of AIDS" written in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. Go back to bed.
This post was edited on 10/7/26 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:28 pm to Fat and Happy
Here’s how bad it was…even Chuck Norris was having to tell kids they had AIDS
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Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:31 pm to REB BEER
That was hilarious to see in the episode itself.
That kid was in everything, then he grew up and was just a kind of gross fat guy, who I identify with but that didn't do him much good in Hollywood.
That kid was in everything, then he grew up and was just a kind of gross fat guy, who I identify with but that didn't do him much good in Hollywood.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:32 pm to jbgleason
Fixed.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:39 pm to KiwiHead
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Wake up in the morning, go to the bathroom and see " Welcome to the real world of AIDS" written in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. Go back to bed
Those Urban Legends were spreading like wildfire.
What's funny is back in the day they tried so hard to keep young people from having sex and now they're freaking out about young people not having sex.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:40 pm to Jim Rockford
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didn't know anybody personally affected.
My mom told me stories about a cousin of hers that had HIV. She was his fig hag. He died either before I was born or shortly after. I always assumed he got AIDS and died. Figured out when I was in my early 20s that he died in a car crash when I mentioned him dying of AIDS to my mom.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 4:49 pm to braves21
It was on the news every night. As time went by they did try to scare people. The activists overrepresented its prevalence in the straight non drug abusing community. If everyone is afraid, everyone will support billions spent on dealing with it.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:01 pm to braves21
If you came down with full blown AIDS, it was pretty much just a matter of time before it took you out. And it didn't discriminate-----young, old, male, female.
It hit the gay community and the idiot drug users who shared needles. Once it got hold of you, it went pretty fast since the medical profession had little idea how to deal with it at that time.
It hit the gay community and the idiot drug users who shared needles. Once it got hold of you, it went pretty fast since the medical profession had little idea how to deal with it at that time.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:02 pm to braves21
I do remember probably around 1978 or 79 one of the supervisors at the plant I was working at then had a son die from HIV/AIDS and no one really understood what this new thing was all about. Of course there were assholes running their mouth that "he got what he deserved" etc. etc.
Then around late 80's I was working at a different place and there was a safety tech there that found out all three of his sons were HIV positive. .... fast forward and only one is still alive.
Then around late 80's I was working at a different place and there was a safety tech there that found out all three of his sons were HIV positive. .... fast forward and only one is still alive.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:06 pm to Jake88
There’s a great bit by Denis Miller on the AIDS thing during his first ever standup special at HBO, Mr. Miller goes to Washington.
It’s on YouTube, but won’t let me embed the video. In fact, it’s pretty much right on with what was going on in the 80s.
It’s on YouTube, but won’t let me embed the video. In fact, it’s pretty much right on with what was going on in the 80s.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:08 pm to braves21
We assumed if we weren't gay we had nothing to worry about.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:13 pm to braves21
There are documents out there that show doctors re-examining old, strange pneumonia and other various disease cases from dead people from as far back as the early 60s which was well before the 1980 timeline commonly accepted as the origin of AIDS. It's just that in the 60s, people had no idea what it was so the person was classified as having just died from pneumonia or something similar. I went down a rabbit hole years ago reading about it.
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Posted on 10/7/26 at 5:17 pm to braves21
Well, when you go into a bath house and frick anything moving, you have tendencies to spread STD’s.
This post was edited on 10/7/26 at 5:18 pm
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