2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: A gay man's view on Hillary's Nancy Reagan/AIDS comments [View all]Laughing Mirror
(4,185 posts)She stepped in it. And it is nice to know how much she reallly knows about the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s when that low-key advocacy of Nancy Reagan meant SILENCE = DEATH to people suffering and dying from it, and to their friends and families. This message perhaps did not get through to the first lady of Arkansas, her "public consciousness" was not "penetrated."
Take Reagan's press secretary, for example, bringing the press pool to laughter. "Lester's ears perked up when he heard the word 'fairies'." "It's known as gay plague." "I don't have it, do you?"
When AIDS was funny: http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/12/01/reagan_press_secretary_laughs_about_gay_people_dying_of_aids.html
I invite all to watch this brief illuminating video, complete with audio clips, of press secretary making fun of us while we were dying:
https://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/565cadc9ff2afb0d45000003/908df3bd-fe4f-4e98-b248-53ab458f708elow.webm
"You don't think it would help if the gays cut down on cruising?"