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https://www.tht.org.uk/our-work/about-our-charity/our-history/1980s#:~:text=HIV%20genetic%20variations%20are%20discovered,46%20deaths%20in%20the%20UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/23/how-1967-changed-gay-life-in-britain-i-think-for-my-generation-were-still-a-little-bit-uneasy

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- same- sex marriage allowed

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- London Gay Switchboard and Gay Medical Association hosted a public meeting to enlighten

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- originally identified as GRID (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) -> gay men were one of the primary groups afflicted

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How many cases of AIDS were known by the end of 1984 in the UK?

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Where he picked up the virus
- 1981, he visited San Francisco for a friends wedding. While there, he had a glorious time celebrating his sexuality

Following year…
- he visited a doctor after developing painful, enlarged lymph nodes.
That led to him being diagnosed with HIV.

Late 1990s…
- he lived long enough to see the dawn of effective treatment.

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because of the way the media presented HIV people got very scared of the disease and thought they could get affected easily

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- Princess Diana made headlines when she opened the first specialist AIDS hospital ward in England.

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ACT UP (AIDS die-ins)

founded in 1987

find a cure for aids,

providing accurate information,

spread awareness about the disease

-the epidemic was ignored

-demonstrations where real bodies were the center

-simulate death to call attention (fake blood, bandages, laying down in public)

-fake funerals, carrying crosses

-peaceful protests

-forced social and cultural institutions to take responsibility for the Aids deaths  (having to physically move the protesters‘ bodies)

located in London (also Paris and New York)

https://www.history.com/news/aids-activism-protests-act-up-die-ins

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July 3, 1981
New York Times wrotes a first article on this „rare cancer observed in 41 homosexuals“

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what people thought how it‘s transmitted
- physical touch
- trough air, water
- insect bites
- homosexual contacts
- blood transmissions

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- a virus appeared the UK

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Infected were violated

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- called “white gay disease”

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how it‘s actually transmitted
- unprotected sexual contact
- blood transmissions
- share of hypodermic needels

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- it was a crime to be homosexual