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What I don’t understand.. is it takes years for the HIV virus to progress to AIDS, even without treatment, but in the 80’s people died in a matter of days? Doesn’t add up.

The gay history is everyone else started using condoms but gays refused to. My brother was earlobe deep in this. He got men whose families refused to claim their bodies…taken care of. Why didn’t gay men protect themselves???? I’ll never understand this. Freddie got hiv in 86 n 87…..how could that happen????

Lovely story

Very informative thanks

Grandmas are the best❤🙏🏾

Thankyou for sharing your life ❤

To hear firsthand the thoughts,hopes ,and the fear of the unknown is wonderful and sad at the same time 🙏🏾❤️

Stunning documentary So sad about Barry, heartbreaking Eric if you read this. Thank you Thank you, Thank you Happy you found love again. This moved me beyond

So sincere, deep and genuine Thanks to share it with us From Brazil ❤

Wow just came across your podcasts. Brought back so many memories good bad and the ugly. I worked as an R.N. during the early aids crisis in Los Angeles starting in 1986. What trying times. Thanks for sharing.

So well done. 80’s AIDS Crisis is really heavy history, you made it an enjoyable listen.

THANK YOU so much for helping to document our rich and colorful gay history. I share your passion. My #GayBarchives channel features more than 150 video interviews about gay bar history. I would be delighted to discover how we can collaborate to further our mutual goal of saving the stories of our gay community. #LetsMakeGayHistory #ilovegaybars

thanks for this. Once HIV/AIDS became more of a chronic disease and was no longer an automatic death sentence, I think society just forgot about all the deaths and the tragedies that happened during the crisis. I lost two friends to AIDS.

Wonderful podcast. Thank you 🫶

What a fantastic body of work you are putting out there Marcus. I have been ‘binge’ listening to your various podcasts and find it to be both riveting and raw. You seem like wonderful man, I don’t know why your work is not huge on the CZcams platform. ❤️

Get D-32 gene cells infused into everyone asap; D-32 gene stops cells from having receptors, the HIV pathogen can't latch on, lock into, and infect to replicate inside cells as a factory. The viroid dies and clears completely from the body. Makes people immune. Make vaccine from this : cure those that have the HIV infection and prevent those who don't from getting it. Researchers have known about the D-32 gene immunity to HIV since the late 80s/early 90s. Should have been a vaccine decades ago: NO excuse. All the innocent babies children women n men who've suffered and died Unnecessarily and still are like in Africa. 😡

Wow. Fucking wow. This is an amazing podcast. It's so shocking to hear how the press corp and the Deputy Press Secretary laughed and joked about AIDS during a press conference. It's so important for people to know this history. Great job, Mr. Marcus! I'm looking forward to the next episode.

Coming out is a lifelong process, with every new person you meet.

It is so heartbreaking to hear about the Greek kid 😔 23 is so young and to be dying alone of a terminal mystery disease in a foreign country where everyone treats you like absolute shit… I don’t think any of us can fully understand what that would be like 💔💔

As a sex worker it seems like a whole different world during that time for people with families and in couples. That was a blessing

The part about the eulogy just broke me. 😢

When I was coming out The Advocate was featuring articles about the "gay cancers" showing up in New York and San Francisco. Anyone who wants to know what it was like to live through that time, watch Long Time Companion.

I appreciate your story and your commitment to make your oral history public. Thank you.

It was gay men who were with us Jews in some of the concentration camps, persecuted and condemned solely for being gay by the Nazi’s. To hear someone conflate the 2 together is sickening. Urgh.

Gay sex = yuck

Leave it to the soap operas and their crews to save the day. (Procter & Gamble was the biggest producer of New York-based soap operas at the time.)

The 13 episodes of Vito Russo's Our Time are on CZcams.

Thirty-nine?! Wow...

I'm happy my friend that you survived the crisis. I loved your videos. I had an uncle who died from AIDS, and this topic has been one of my biggest interests. I am so glad that AIDS is no longer a death sentence. God bless you, sir.

Seemed a lot of these victims were of Italian and Jewish background

Appreciate yoyu. I wish michael callen would have made it ❤ not fair 😢

Thats crazy how the president at the time reacted stupid af

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I have listened to all the episodes of this series and I will listen to all of your podcast IM MOVED THANKS

Thank you so so much for these podcasts. My name is Roberto and I now live in Madrid Spain. And now I’ll follow you and I’ll be a subscriber of this channel from now on

My heart to you

I am enjoying and am learning a lot from your podcasts. I'm so glad your grandma didn't flinch in her love for you. That story was absolutely beautiful.

I don't think I've ever left a comment on a youtube video before but I've been listening to this series and I just wanted to thank you so much for sharing your story. I've been incredibly moved by it. Thank you

Thanks for all these videos! This is a great history lesson.❤

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Thanks for letting me know! Terribly scary! Most people listen to Making Gay History on one of the podcast players, like Apple Podcasts, which is why there are many more comments there. Thanks for listening!

Im not LGBTQ and i think that needed to be said so you know that you are reaching more than just the LGBTQ community, thank you for this. The AIDS crisis,. especially the earlier years seems so scary to have to had lived thru. Thank you for doing this. Im surprised there's only 2 comments. This should be more widespread.

This is a time period people need to remember. I have always been interested in working on this topic to keep history alive. I would like to become involved if help is needed.

I'm so happy you are doing this. This generation of gay males need to listen to this over and over.

I have brotherly love for gay men, and I have always been involved with them. There's definitely nothing wrong with that, and I respect your life, history and story. <3

PS - Nurturing men. Why don't they think of nurturing men when they think of gay men?? I surround myself with gay men, because they are nurturing. All the interviews are eye-opening, and you are obviously an intelligent individual. I'm so glad you made this. I try to go to every event I can for AIDS support; we do the AIDS RIBBON in Tucson (which is a Red felt cloth piece that has been hand carried for years, that presents the names of loved ones who have died of the disease, like the Quilt, including even celebrities' names.) We still need support even now, and we would love to connect. Thank you Eric for what you do. :)

Omg,I thought your Grandmother would have had the reaction your sister did. So many people worry how to tell someone, but they know already.

Thank you for educating those of us who were born during that time, at the beginning of the 80s, and received a blood transfusion; we had no clue how it would turn out. I am negative, but I dedicate almost every waking day to the cause. Again, thank you. Education = Life :)

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Eric this such a moving story. I remember this so well. It was horrible back then. The younger generation have no idea. Thank you so much for sharing your story.