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lunatica

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2. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area

Reply to Meldread (Original post)

Sat Mar 12, 2016, 02:56 PM

Mar 2016

I recall vividly the first mention of something that was afflicting the gay community in San Francisco. The media talked about gay men who frequented bath houses getting a disease in the effort to find out the origin of the disease. At the time there was no knowledge whatsoever of what the cause of AIDS was. The disease didn't even have a name then.

Ronald Reagan could have spoken out early on and there would be tens of thousands still living now.

I often wondered how the Republicans made a god out of him.

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Nancy Reagan and her husband were silent as tens of thousands died. They were monsters. [View all] Meldread Mar 2016 OP

It was a purely cold political calculation. HooptieWagon Mar 2016 #1

Oh I think it was more than that n2doc Mar 2016 #3

I think just as importantly, is the joke itself. Meldread Mar 2016 #8

Jesus XemaSab Mar 2016 #11

I wish that were true. Meldread Mar 2016 #18

I'm optimistic but realistic XemaSab Mar 2016 #19

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area lunatica Mar 2016 #2

if only charlespercydemocrat Mar 2016 #4

Truth. Welcome to DU. Meldread Mar 2016 #17

Many thought that gays deserved death Bestuserever Mar 2016 #5

Ruth Coker Burks polly7 Mar 2016 #6

I am glad you read the article. She deserves a monument in her honor and in the memory of those she Meldread Mar 2016 #10

Yes, the contrast in compassion, empathy and her absolutely desperate need to get resources and polly7 Mar 2016 #12

I really don't understand this need to say something nice SamKnause Mar 2016 #7

Yeah, I know and agree. Meldread Mar 2016 #13

Agree. SamKnause Mar 2016 #14

The Reagans sided with the bigots who wanted gays dead. JEB Mar 2016 #9

This misspeak was YUUUUGE! more like M.I.S.S.P.E.A.K.!!!!!!!!!!!!! HereSince1628 Mar 2016 #15

Careful, I got scolded for calling them monsters. Seems we might have some holdout Reagan Dems. Rex Mar 2016 #16