Hi gay! We're back with more Pride Programming! This week, we discuss the AIDS epidemic and the course it ran through the US. TW: discussions of death, institutional homophobia, and illness.

AHF: https://www.aidshealth.org/

Out of the Closet Thrift Stores: https://outofthecloset.org/

Other sources/references:

Life Before the Lifeboat (film, 2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOauL9VDpSk

NPR interview with Cliff Morrison/Ward 5B: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/26/736060834/1st-aids-ward-5b-fought-to-give-patients-compassionate-care-dignified-deaths

HIV/AIDS timeline: https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline

Compton Cafeteria Riots: https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline

And the Band Played On (film, 1993)

How to Survive a Plague (film, 2012)

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