A Marxist history of HIV/AIDS – Part 2 The origins of HIV/AIDS
By Devin Cole posted on July 9, 2021
HIV refers to human imunodeficiency virus. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).
The reactionary, conservative response to AIDS post-1981 was to immediately blame and further condemn gays and lesbians, and later all LGBTQ+ people.
World AIDS Day in El Fasher, Sudan, Dec. 1, 2014 Credit: Hamid Abdulsalam
HIV was initially referred to as “GRID” Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Although quickly changed, that smear on the LGBTQ+ community left a lasting mark. Today LGBTQ+ people are still having to prove that AIDS is not a “gay disease.”
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