@GetOffYourHighHorse
'I felt so sad that Colin didn't get to have a loving relationship but that guy who treated him like dirt'
I know and it was just utterly devastating how he suffered being locked in the ward at the hospital. Did things like that really happen?
I wonder how many families like Gloria's look back with horror and shame at how they reacted, burning belongings. It was just so harrowing to watch.
I don’t know much about the facts, who was at fault with the inadequate public health information was it PHE in the 80s?
Yes people were detained, it was very common for people to die alone, it was also common for gay men to be evicted from their properties as landlords believed the property would be ‘infected’ with HIV.
People were often sacked for being gay, even before the HIV pandemic.
A significant number of people didn’t have funerals as funeral directors wouldn’t handle people who had HIV.
In some areas around half of the gay male population died, in other areas it was higher. If you go to some places now there is a real lack of gay men who are 35-45ish because so many died, in some areas an entire generation of gay men died.
The attached picture is a choir in San Fran, the men in white are original members who were not killed by HIV, the members in black represent every member who was a victim of HIV.
Numbers in the States were much worse than ours, between 1981-1989 there were 120,000 deaths, thats a lot, but when you consider that most of those deaths were gay men, so around 2.5% of the population.
In 2021 there are still people who want to criminalise HIV.