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re: What were the 80s like in regards to the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
Posted on 10/7/26 at 6:57 pm to evil cockroach
Posted on 10/7/26 at 6:57 pm to evil cockroach
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Birdseed being straight cold to Mandingo
Well played.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 6:58 pm to braves21
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What were the 80s like in regards to the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
It was just like Covid, where the cure was worse than then disease.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 6:58 pm to baybeefeetz
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You cannot appreciate the magnitude of Magic announcing he had HIV.
Magic and I have the same birthday.
I had just taken him with 1st pick in my fantasy basketball draft that year.
needless to say i lost.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:02 pm to braves21
Before the popular weight loss pill got lost into the either you were able to tell people they should get Aids and no one cared.
Body positivity is gay.
Body positivity is gay.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:07 pm to braves21
There’s an excellent documentary series on the 80s and one episode was devoted to HIV/AIDS. It’s excellent. It really shows the fear and uncertainty during that time. Highly recommend if this is something that interests you. I last watched it on Netflix.
LINK
LINK
This post was edited on 10/7/26 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:13 pm to braves21
I was at LSU from 1982-85.
I do not recall anyone worrying about it or even really talking about it.
I do not recall anyone worrying about it or even really talking about it.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:16 pm to braves21
I can give you one instance where it affected our family. Brother was in 9th grade and started bleeding internally. Rushed to hospital and as it turned out had been bleeding internally for a week or so. Received something like 8 units of blood.
These units of blood were right before they started screening donors for HIV AIDS. It was scary. They tested him for several months before it was clear he did not get infected.
Apparently quite a lot of people were infected through blood transfusions before screening was required.
These units of blood were right before they started screening donors for HIV AIDS. It was scary. They tested him for several months before it was clear he did not get infected.
Apparently quite a lot of people were infected through blood transfusions before screening was required.
This post was edited on 10/7/26 at 7:17 pm
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:21 pm to braves21
We started wearing gloves working on the ambulance. There had always been a box, but it was for show or “really nasty” things. HIV was a really nasty thing.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:23 pm to braves21
People in college in the early 90’s were definitely aware of it. While I was in college, the university as part of some outreach program had some guy in his mid 20’s come talk to us and explain that he had contracted it recently through unprotected heterosexual sex. You could tell it struck a cord with a lot of people. That was right around the time the movie Kids came out which was also pretty disturbing. I wouldn’t say there was paranoia if you were heterosexual and not an IV drug user but most of my friends were very aware of it.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:25 pm to braves21
If not for the MSM, I’d have never heard of AIDS.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:26 pm to braves21
Much like it is today. People lived their lives and tried to avoid risky behavior.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:34 pm to Tridentds
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Apparently quite a lot of people were infected through blood transfusions before screening was required.
Arthur Ashe
Ryan White
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:39 pm to jbgleason
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Bull fricking shite. We were constantly being told we could get it from straight sex and even from touching / ingesting some blood, spit or other bodily fluids.
Don't forget about the toilet seats. They were supposedly a super spreader.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:40 pm to braves21
It was pretty rough for Freddie Mercury and Easy E.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:46 pm to braves21
I still remember the first time I heard about AIDS. It was on the ABC show 20/20, which was appointment TV to my momma. They did a segment on this mysterious new disease among homosexuals called “AIDS” that was speeding like wildfire among their kind. This was about 1982 or 83. I was either 12 or 13 and didn’t pay it much attention. I remember after that the media started making a big deal about it. Personally, since I’m not homo and didn’t hang around homos, I didn’t really worry about it.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 7:55 pm to braves21
I was close with a family from Louisiana who had a son who was a flight attendant out of Houston. He was gay and he after contracting AIDS, he was one of the very first people to die from it in America.
In fact, when he died the doctors told his family it was pneumonia, and nothing else.
I remember CBS News did a special on AIDS shortly after that and it scared the crap out of me, even as a kid.
Initially folks believed you had to be homosexual to acquire it, which is really stupid when you think about how it was transmitted. Slowly but surely we began to learn more about it and by the time the kid died from it after being treated with dirty dental tools, folks began to wake up.
In fact, when he died the doctors told his family it was pneumonia, and nothing else.
I remember CBS News did a special on AIDS shortly after that and it scared the crap out of me, even as a kid.
Initially folks believed you had to be homosexual to acquire it, which is really stupid when you think about how it was transmitted. Slowly but surely we began to learn more about it and by the time the kid died from it after being treated with dirty dental tools, folks began to wake up.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 8:00 pm to braves21
Ryan White - innocent victim contracted the disease from a blood transfusion
Rock Hudson - first big name celebrity to die from AIDS, closeted homosexual but could have contracted the disease from a blood transfusion during heart surgery.
Eazy-E - 11 children with 8 different baby mommas, refused treatment because he didn't want to be mistaken as a punk. More than likely got it from lots of unprotected sex.
It was a wild time and was all over the news. I also don't believe that Magic Johnson ever had HIV. I think he got a strain of VD that's never been seen before.
Rock Hudson - first big name celebrity to die from AIDS, closeted homosexual but could have contracted the disease from a blood transfusion during heart surgery.
Eazy-E - 11 children with 8 different baby mommas, refused treatment because he didn't want to be mistaken as a punk. More than likely got it from lots of unprotected sex.
It was a wild time and was all over the news. I also don't believe that Magic Johnson ever had HIV. I think he got a strain of VD that's never been seen before.
Posted on 10/7/26 at 8:03 pm to braves21
quote:i grew up in Monroe in the 80s. I woulda had to drive for a thousand miles to find an openly gay man.
Were people afraid of gay white men?
Even at that we were all pretty sure we were going to die from aids somehow. We still were having sex, but we had weighed the odds.
Then a couple years later no body ever mentioned it again
Posted on 10/7/26 at 8:04 pm to Scottforeverlsu
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Bushnell, no cares about HIV
Posted on 10/7/26 at 8:09 pm to cwil177
Randy Shilts's book And The Band Played On is a fascinating, terrifying, sad read about the crisis.
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