this preventable virus has reached
pandemic proportions welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the evolution of the
acceptance of AIDS petrifies Mika’s
girls be hanging out with them and one
night they could be in the club having
fun with a gay friend and give a little
kiss and go home with their aids on the
lips the husband in like five years
listen mr. Johnson you have a she goes
age I’m not a homosexual sure you’re not
a homicide AIDS first began to spread
through humans in the 1950s and
ignorance led to forced quarantines of
all people suffering from it the disease
worsened slowly over the next decades
until it finally exploded in the 1980s
at that point the disease mainly
affected the gay community and was
thought to be an extreme strain of
pneumonia
it wasn’t until June 1981 that a group
of doctors in San Francisco recognized
the disease cluster that was eventually
characterized as AIDS that year there
were 121 confirmed deaths due to the
illness the next year it spread further
through the American homosexual
community it was then temporarily named
grid or gay related immune deficiency
the lifestyle of some male homosexuals
has triggered an epidemic of a rare form
of cancer
however by August 1982 roughly half of
sufferers were not homosexual and so the
disease was renamed the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS one
other group that was high-risk for aids
for hemophiliacs due to their need for
blood transfusions in December 1984 a
young American haemophiliac named Ryan
White was diagnosed with the disease he
was subsequently expelled from school
because of his illness despite the fact
that his doctors said he posed no risk
to other students the ensuing lawsuit
through international attention with
celebrities like Michael Jackson and
Elton John befriending the boy and
helping to raise money for the disease
white was the first case to dispel the
idea that AIDS targeted only gay men and
he changed perceptions of the disease
immensely in the United
he died in 1990 at the age of 18
American actor Rock Hudson was the next
person to give a face to the disease the
leading man hit his AIDS diagnosis from
the public until a few months before he
died in 1985 at the age of 59 following
his death funding for AIDS research
soared from the general public and the
American government as media coverage of
AIDS increased so did fear about the
disease in 1987 a swimming pool in a
small town in West Virginia was closed
after an AIDS infected men swam inant
following the incident The Oprah Winfrey
Show featured an hour-long episode
dedicated to discussing AIDS and
homosexuality with the community I think
God has given him the AIDS for special
reason I would want even be around my
family shouldn’t be around my family
put him on a reservation like today the
Indians in 1988 the first World AIDS Day
was held on December 1st and the event
brought the illness into the mainstream
even further on November 7th 1991
basketball star Magic Johnson shocked
the world when he announced he had
tested positive for HIV and was retiring
immediately to battle the disease
Johnson’s announcement finally
discredited the homosexual myth about
AIDS for the American public and proved
that the disease could affect anyone he
came out of retirement years later to
prove it was safe to play on the same
court as someone infected with HIV it
was just weeks after Johnson’s
announcement that Queen frontman Freddie
Mercury revealed he was suffering from
AIDS and he died a day later at the age
of 45 1993 saw the release of three
pieces of work that drew public
attention to the AIDS crisis the
Pulitzer Prize winning play Angels in
America was completed Tom Hanks
performance in Philadelphia as a gay
lawyer who has been dismissed from his
job due to his AIDS diagnosis was
praised and HBO released its film
adaptation of the acclaimed nonfiction
book and the band played on
originally published in 1987 the book
chronicled the spread of HIV and AIDS
and its social impact on the United
States their name yet for this disease
the gay press calls it gay pneumonia or
gay cancer
straight press doesn’t mention it at all
in 1996 the popular rock musical rent
debuted and followed a group of young
New York artists against the backdrop of
the AIDS epidemic in the 90s even more
celebrities challenged perceptions of
AIDS by admitting their infection
including tennis great Arthur Ashe
rapper eazy-e and Olympic diving
champion Greg Louganis by 1995 aids
became the number one killer of people
age 25 to 44 in America and by 1997 it
was estimated that 30 million people
around the world were living with AIDS
ten years later the worldwide death
count from AIDS had reached 25 million
as we inch closer to a cure social
acceptance of the disease has definitely
grown in the years since its discovery
thanks to the contributions and
sacrifices of a few and we must reaffirm
our own commitment to confront and
defeat this disease once and for all
pandemic proportions welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’ll be
learning more about the evolution of the
acceptance of AIDS petrifies Mika’s
girls be hanging out with them and one
night they could be in the club having
fun with a gay friend and give a little
kiss and go home with their aids on the
lips the husband in like five years
listen mr. Johnson you have a she goes
age I’m not a homosexual sure you’re not
a homicide AIDS first began to spread
through humans in the 1950s and
ignorance led to forced quarantines of
all people suffering from it the disease
worsened slowly over the next decades
until it finally exploded in the 1980s
at that point the disease mainly
affected the gay community and was
thought to be an extreme strain of
pneumonia
it wasn’t until June 1981 that a group
of doctors in San Francisco recognized
the disease cluster that was eventually
characterized as AIDS that year there
were 121 confirmed deaths due to the
illness the next year it spread further
through the American homosexual
community it was then temporarily named
grid or gay related immune deficiency
the lifestyle of some male homosexuals
has triggered an epidemic of a rare form
of cancer
however by August 1982 roughly half of
sufferers were not homosexual and so the
disease was renamed the acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS one
other group that was high-risk for aids
for hemophiliacs due to their need for
blood transfusions in December 1984 a
young American haemophiliac named Ryan
White was diagnosed with the disease he
was subsequently expelled from school
because of his illness despite the fact
that his doctors said he posed no risk
to other students the ensuing lawsuit
through international attention with
celebrities like Michael Jackson and
Elton John befriending the boy and
helping to raise money for the disease
white was the first case to dispel the
idea that AIDS targeted only gay men and
he changed perceptions of the disease
immensely in the United
he died in 1990 at the age of 18
American actor Rock Hudson was the next
person to give a face to the disease the
leading man hit his AIDS diagnosis from
the public until a few months before he
died in 1985 at the age of 59 following
his death funding for AIDS research
soared from the general public and the
American government as media coverage of
AIDS increased so did fear about the
disease in 1987 a swimming pool in a
small town in West Virginia was closed
after an AIDS infected men swam inant
following the incident The Oprah Winfrey
Show featured an hour-long episode
dedicated to discussing AIDS and
homosexuality with the community I think
God has given him the AIDS for special
reason I would want even be around my
family shouldn’t be around my family
put him on a reservation like today the
Indians in 1988 the first World AIDS Day
was held on December 1st and the event
brought the illness into the mainstream
even further on November 7th 1991
basketball star Magic Johnson shocked
the world when he announced he had
tested positive for HIV and was retiring
immediately to battle the disease
Johnson’s announcement finally
discredited the homosexual myth about
AIDS for the American public and proved
that the disease could affect anyone he
came out of retirement years later to
prove it was safe to play on the same
court as someone infected with HIV it
was just weeks after Johnson’s
announcement that Queen frontman Freddie
Mercury revealed he was suffering from
AIDS and he died a day later at the age
of 45 1993 saw the release of three
pieces of work that drew public
attention to the AIDS crisis the
Pulitzer Prize winning play Angels in
America was completed Tom Hanks
performance in Philadelphia as a gay
lawyer who has been dismissed from his
job due to his AIDS diagnosis was
praised and HBO released its film
adaptation of the acclaimed nonfiction
book and the band played on
originally published in 1987 the book
chronicled the spread of HIV and AIDS
and its social impact on the United
States their name yet for this disease
the gay press calls it gay pneumonia or
gay cancer
straight press doesn’t mention it at all
in 1996 the popular rock musical rent
debuted and followed a group of young
New York artists against the backdrop of
the AIDS epidemic in the 90s even more
celebrities challenged perceptions of
AIDS by admitting their infection
including tennis great Arthur Ashe
rapper eazy-e and Olympic diving
champion Greg Louganis by 1995 aids
became the number one killer of people
age 25 to 44 in America and by 1997 it
was estimated that 30 million people
around the world were living with AIDS
ten years later the worldwide death
count from AIDS had reached 25 million
as we inch closer to a cure social
acceptance of the disease has definitely
grown in the years since its discovery
thanks to the contributions and
sacrifices of a few and we must reaffirm
our own commitment to confront and
defeat this disease once and for all
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