Queer History 141: AIDS Crisis Blamed on the Gay Community

“Fortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. You simply lose your body. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will not have drug addictions. You will not need alcohol. You will not have to worry about cellulite or cigarettes or cancer or AIDS or venereal disease. You will be free.” — Cookie Mueller

Government-Sanctioned Genocide: When Leaders Laughed at Death

The stench of death hung over every gay neighborhood in America like a fucking plague cloud, but it wasn't the virus killing us – it was the deliberate, calculated cruelty of a society that had been waiting for an excuse to watch us die. When the CDC published that first clinical report about five young gay men with mysterious infections, they might as well have loaded the chamber for a genocide that masqueraded as medical indifference.

The bastards in the Reagan administration literally laugh…