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mynameishere on March 23, 2020 | parent | context | on: Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospita...

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scarmig on March 23, 2020 | [–]

You're rewriting history in a way to paint the mainstream response to HIV in a more favorable light.

It was initially thought of as a joke, and when gay men were dying, Reagan administration officials were laughing at it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/reagan-administratio...

DoreenMichele on March 23, 2020 | [–]

was almost entirely a homosexual thing, and mainly promiscuous homosexuals at that.

In the US. This is not true and was not ever true in some other parts of the world.

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