TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On February 16, 1990, artist Keith Haring dies of AIDS at the age of 31. Known for designing the National Coming Out Day logo, below is his less known "Unfinished Painting," which he intended to serve as a reminder of his own life being cut short by AIDS.
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"would it be so TERRIBLE??" always remember the date this interview aired February 13, 2011 when I tell you the entire culture SHIFTED basically overnight
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remembering again how a minor league 17-year-old girl struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in 1931 and the commissioner of baseball voided her contract the next day.
Transgender women will be banned from competing in top-level female chess tournaments while the gameโs governing body adjudicates whether they have an unfair advantage
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hi so you all know the Stonewall Inn was raided because the NYPD were enforcing new york state's "you must be wearing at least 3 'gender-appropriate' articles of clothing" law, right?
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This is the scandal. This is the scandal. This is the scandal
Workers at a gender clinic were keeping a spreadsheet of the clients that they thought were not really trans, and they shared that spreadsheet with socially conservative politicians and Jesse effing Singal
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Paxlovid contains protease inhibitors, a class of drugs that wouldn't exist without the tireless efforts of ACT UP in the 1980s and 90s. Their thankless activism that was routinely mocked in the media and pop culture is now saving humanity.
Every single ACT UP member who fought (and often died) in the late 80s/early 90s to get this class of drugs developed to treat HIV/AIDS, getting mocked & ridiculed the whole way, is now responsible for quite possibly saving all of humanity from COVID.
I'm actually gonna cry.
Pfizerโs oral protease inhibitor PF-07321332 for
#COVID19
Reduced Risk of Hospitalization or Death from 6.7% (41/612) to 1.0% (6/607) when starting within 5 days of symptom onset.
10 vs 0 deaths.
#idtwitter
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not even kidding "keep the faith" is about brother and sister's nerd friend telling them he believes in science not god, so mama and papa bring over the family preacher to keep brother and sister from having independent thoughts.
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The fact that anyone in the community survived those initial 15 years of AIDS is a miracle.
They were really trying to kill that entire queer generation off. Never forget that Reagan, Falwell, Robertson and all their allies did this. Hell is way too cold for them.
25 years ago today, the Bay Area Reporter published its famous frontpage banner headline "NO OBITS," announcing that for the first time since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS crisis in 1981, no obituaries had been submitted for that week's issue.
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TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On June 11, 1988, a planned Ku Klux Klan protest in South Portland, Maine against "government aid to homosexuals" is thwarted when over 100 largely LGBTQ+ counter-protesters immediately surround Klan members as they exit their cars, forcing them to leave.
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In about 5-10 years we will all be neck-deep in media stories about the "unintended consequences" of this current wave of anti-trans laws.
"There was no way we could have seen this coming," they'll say.
The New York Times editorial board will be writing these pieces in blood.
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As the American right continues its freakout over trans people existing, you probably missed the news that the World Health Organization just totally de-pathologized LGBTQ+ people in its own diagnostic manual that every country in the world uses as a reference.
We are winning.
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TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On October 14, 1977, gay activist Thom Higgins successfully pies anti-gay demon campaigner Anita Bryant in the face in full view of the national media as she is holding a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Born This Way is "problematic" for lack of a better term for reinforcing a biologically determinist view of sexuality & gender but there's ZERO doubt Gaga singlehandedly changed the culture for the better with it. I'll never forget how much the vibe shifted in those 48-72 hours.
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Nurses used to literally sell celebrity patients' HIV test results to tabloids like the National Enquirer until suddenly there was the potential for a $25,000 per violation fine for even looking at them when you had no good reason.
This is correct. The history of legal protections for patient records, in the US at least, stems from privacy violations of HIV and AIDS patients, particularly gay men for whom the exposure of HIV status doubled as outing.
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TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On May 21, 1979, following the conviction of Dan White for voluntary manslaughter in the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, San Francisco gay activists have a night-long battle with the SFPD, which becomes known as the "White Night Riot."
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My cousin, her husband and their kids all recently agreed that they'd make no new Harry Potter merchandise purchases.
How many other families are making the exact same decision?
TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On August 24, 1970, in the pages of The New York Times, a courageous unnamed lesbian asks the one question that continues to plague queer-kind to this day....
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"no it's okay, we ran this list that should never have existed through the PHI dishwasher which means it's okay to give it to this guy who calls himself a journalist"
Hope everyone involved in this gets the maximal penalty HIPAA allows, Singal included.
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The level of panic that this Gallup poll from mid-February set off in conservative circles is beyond our comprehension.
It's not an accident "oKaY gROoMEr" picked up significant steam right after its publication. They probably had strategy meetings & Zooms about it.
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The acronym "lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender" has been around since at least 1983. The 1993 March on Washington was gonna be called the "March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equal Rights" until TERFs threw a fit & it was changed at the last minute.
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TODAY IN LGBTQ+ HISTORY: On October 14, 1977, gay activist Thom Higgins successfully pies anti-gay demon campaigner Anita Bryant in the face in full view of the national media as she is holding a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
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The ADF *appears* to have made up a fake gay couple in 303 Creative v. Elenis, which SCOTUS is deciding TOMORROW. The New Republic tracked down "Stewart" of the "Stewart and Mike" who allegedly requested a gay wedding website and he is married to a woman.
@BusinessWaffles
@ButNotTheCity
You canโt just remove PHI to resolve a HIPAA violation after the fact. Each time she unnecessarily accessed and improperly stored that information was a separate offense. Iโm very interested to see how this shakes out.
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@mattxiv
imagine going through every day of your life with your immediate peers asking you "wHAt SO yOuR ATtRaCTeD tO PaNS?" and still being a Republican.
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"why are you surprised"
maybe because it's good to have standards instead of just passively letting people live down to low expectations, probably that.
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@DoggoConyers
@CherylRofer
yeah giving people the option to enter their own HIV status and accessing people's medical records to sell their HIV status to people who publicize it against their will are the exact same thing.
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NEW: A woman who owns clothing stores in Los Angeles, California, was shot and killed by a man after he made derogatory comments about the pride flag hanging outside her business. Lauri Carleton is survived by her husband of 28 years and their 9 children.
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"queer is a slur" is about trying to intimidate you into not using all-inclusive language, because it makes it more difficult to do divide-and-conquer. And they don't like that.
Probably like 80% of "queer is a slur" people also have "LGBโ๏ธTQ" in their bios. That's by design.
As a Catholic, let me be 100% clear:
1) This Pope is a communist/socialist who cozies up to some of the most brutal dictators of our time as long as they are leftists. Catholics across Latin America who suffer under socialist regimes realized this in horror from day one. Onlyโฆ
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@PixelLoki
A female biochemist maligned in the 80s comes up with a vaccination for COVID that may also lead to a vaccination for HIV, and activists maligned in the 80s lead to the development of HIV drugs that may also lead to a cure for COVID. Idk how you get more poetic than that.
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"Silence = Death" was about silence in the face of GENOCIDE. Government (see: Reagan) ENABLED genocide.
I invite anyone to even TRY to controvert that. That is a FACT. And fuck ANYONE who tries to redefine its origins.
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The WHO's new ICD-11, effective 1 January 2022, removed "gender identity disorder" and "ego-dystonic sexual orientation" from its official list of mental disorders.
This manual will shape global psychiatric policy towards LGBTQ+ people for decades to come.
We will win.
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@mattxiv
if you're gonna wear a t shirt with a mocking image of the person interviewing you it might be a good idea to not then get owned by that person
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since Internet atheists became critically endangered in 2014 the Evangelicals have been running wild like thousands of deer with no predators, wreaking absolute havoc with the internet food chain, threatening the entire biome.
suddenly one wolf is reintroduced....
Sorry but there's zero reason to be gay and respond to the Senate Twink Incident with anything but humor & support. If you're running around acting like this is some "crisis" for the community and that he "did damage" I'm just going to assume you're an Andrew Sullivan reader.
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Also that's just the act of improperly ACCESSING the information ONCE per patient, I'd imagine their real potential exposure here is like ten times that at least.
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My cousin, her husband and their kids all recently agreed that they'd make no new Harry Potter merchandise purchases.
How many other families are making the exact same decision?
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The entire reason homosexuality was de-listed from the DSM in 1973 was because gay people made their voices heard in the face of a "scientific" community that had been talking at and about them in a monologue for decades.
I was a trans teen who transitioned medically as a child, who has been transitioned for about a decade. No regrets. Where's my NYT spot? Why are they not talking to any of the thousands of trans people in my very position? Happy, satisfied people?