1982 - 1992 News Clips On HIV/AIDS (The First Ten Years)
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- RARE CANCER TYPE TRACED TO HOMOSEXUALS 6/17/1982
GAY DISEASE (AIDS) 6/16/1982
DOCTORS SEARCH FOR ANSWERS TO AIDS MYSTERY 6/20/1983
NYC GAY PARADE 6/26/1983
GAY PRIDE DAY CALLS FOR AIDS HELP 6/27/1983
HOUSE OF REPS HEARS TESTIMONY ON AIDS 8/2/1983
GOVERNMENT REPORTS SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGH IN AIDS RESEARCH 4/23/1984
SF PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT CLOSES DOWN BATH HOUSES IN SF TO CURB AIDS EPIDEMIC 10/9/1984
HOUSTON PREPARES TO VOTE ON REFERENDUM ON CIVIL RIGHTS FOR HOMOSEXUALS 1/19/1985
AIDS - PART 4 OF 5 9/12/1985
ACTOR ROCK HUDSON DIES AFTER BATTLE WITH AIDS 10/2/1985
REPORTING OF AIDS CASES LEVELS OFF INDICATING CHANGE IN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 10/16/1985
AIDS BECOMING POLITICAL ISSUE IN 1986 CAMPAIGNS 10/18/1985
CLOSING OF MINESHAFT GAY BAR AMID AIDS CRISIS 11/6/1985
AIDS JUNKIES 1/20/1986
KOKOMO PARENTS SEEK TO BLOCK AIDS BOY FROM RETURNING TO CLASS 2/20/1986
RYAN WHITE ARRIVES FOR FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL 8/26/1986
RYAN WHITE DIES AT 18 THE VICTIM OF AIDS 4/8/1990
SCOTUS TO DETERMINE STATES RIGHTS ON LEGISLATIVE RESTRICTIONS ON GAY ACTS 3/31/1986
JUSTICE DEPT RULES EMPLOYERS CAN FIRE AIDS VICTIMS TO PREVENT AIDS SPREADING 6/23/1986
ULTRA-RIGHT WINGER LYNDON LAROUCHE ASKS FOR QUARANTINE OF AIDS VICTIMS 6/25/1986
THE FIRST HOSPITAL DEVOTED TO AIDS TREATMENT : RESEARCH OPENS IN TEXAS 8/27/1986
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER PROP 64 WHICH WOULD QUARANTINE AIDS PATIENTS 9/16/1986
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPROVES SALE OF AZT IN PRESCRIPTION FORM 3/20/1987
PRES REAGAN URGES YOUTH TO ABSTAIN FROM SEX TO AVOID AIDS 4/1/1987
COL LEGISLATURE CONSIDERS BILL REQUIRING DRs TO REPORT NAMES OF HIV POSITIVE 4/22/1987
REAGAN ADMINS LONG RANGE PLANS FOR AIDS INCLUDE MANDATORY TESTING 5/28/1987
REAGAN ADMINISTRATION SPEAKS OUT ON TOPIC OF AIDS TESTING 6/1/1987
PRES REAGAN NAMES NATIONAL COMMISSION ON AIDS : INCLUDES GAY ACTIVIST 7/23/1987
FRONT PAGE: GAY MARCH CONTENDS WITH AIDS ISSUE 10/11/1987
WASHINGTON GAY MARCH 10/11/1987
GAYS PROTEST OUTSIDE SCOTUS OVER LACK OF AIDS FUNDING 10/13/1987
AIDS PROTEST IN NYC 3/24/1988
STONEWALL:GAY PARADE NATSOT MATERIAL 6/25/1989
GAY LIB DEMONSTRATORS CELEBRATE TWENTY YEARS OUT OF THE CLOSET 6/25/1989
AZT TESTING GIVES NEW HOPE TO AIDS PATIENTS 8/18/1989
AFTER EIGHT: AIDS MILITANTS (INTERVIEW WITH LARRY KRAMER) 3/20/1990
AIDS IN THE 90s 3/27/1990
MAGIC JOHNSON PRESS CONFERENCE RE: TESTING POSITIVE FOR AIDS VIRUS 11/7/1991
AIDS CONFERENCE IN FLORENCE WILL FOCUS ON EXPLOSION OF EPIDEMIC IN AFRICA 6/16/1991
AIDS IS SPREADING THROUGH DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 6/17/1991
AIDS QUILT UNFURLED IN WASHINGTON 10/10/1992
Poor kid Ryan White had such a positive attitude despite hateful people .
@@ehimengrace9829 Reported for misinformation and spam.
The president that the US had at the time was the biggest problem. Guy was an ignorant fool who chose to ignore the problem for as long as he felt it only affects gays. Guy was a disgrace
not hatefull ppl, but scared
@@hgfffdfh2002 yep, they didnt understand the disease and were very afraid. Not that it justifies their actions, but the ignorance around aids was very bad.
@kyle. lots of things cause ignorance but religion is a large part of that.
My older brother was diagnosed with HIV in ‘87, and then AIDS the next fall in ‘88. He dealt with many of the stigmas, fears and prejudices common during the eighties. We lived in Philadelphia, so being in a big city was slightly better than what some dealt with in smaller towns and the Midwest, but it still broke my heart to see what he went through. He died in sleep one night, but by that time, he was a shell of the person he once was. I still miss him everyday.
Manmelt I’m truly sorry for your loss
He probably is proud of you and happy you care and love him. Remember love Trump's hate.
I am so sorry for you lsos
I hate ignorance.Sorry for your brothers loss.
God bless.
Both of my parents and twin sister died of AIDS in the 1980s. I am thankful I was born negative but I do miss them dearly.
How they get it?
+Sephiroth766 blood transfusion
So sorry to hear that
I’m truly so very sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry to hear about your family. God Bless You!
I was infected in 1981 and I'm still here.
Yay!
I'm so happy to hear that! ❤️
Live long and prosper! 🖖
I lost my best friend in 1993. He was 28 years old, and I still miss him. I saw what HIV did to people, and I will never, ever forget it. (I was born in 1970.)
Glad to hear that! Keep on fighting
Did you take medicine during the 80s? Are taking anti retro today?
Wow. How? What was your treatment in 1981?
Good to know. Keep fighting
This is actually incredibly frightening and unsettling to watch. Stay safe, folks and always be compassionate even if you do not agree with certain lifestyles.
Compassion is what is lacking in society today.
Hopefully in 20 years from now there"ll be a programme like this talking about how aids was finally medically defeated.
They're basically there now. With a routine of 3 meds the can become undetectable which is like remission and it can't be transferred to others once undetectable. Magic Johnson for example. The have to continue meds a long time and without insurance they're pretty expensive
@@erinhand Aids is no longer a deadly disease. If you`re Hiv-positive you can live a normal life, and live to be 90 years old. Cancer is still as deadly as it used to be. The fight against hiv has been won. Cancer is next. I lost my mother to lung cancer. She died 6 months after being diagnosed.
@@yellyman5483 hiv hasn't even been around for 90 years so how did you determine folks with the virus can live that long?
@@jenpenticoff1663 Because we have new drugs that is working pretty well on patiens who got infected in the 1980. Many of them are still alive in 2019 30 years after they got infected. That means that people can survive hiv as long as they stay on their drug program.
@@jenpenticoff1663 People are not dying of hiv any more.
education is key, its heartbreaking how people with AIDS were treated
The stigma is the hardest part of this virus 🤷🏾♂️
@B H that’s not true. People in general didn’t practice safe sex back then because STI’s weren’t deadly until HIV/ AIDS came around
@@callumsinclair2562Youre correct. I think by the time AIDS came around, most STDs were treatable as well. I think most instances of couples using protection, was more to limit child birth than personal or public safety, because you pretty much could get an injection or take a pill to cure almost every STD out there. Gay men obviously also didnt need to worry about birth control, so pre AIDS, im sure the usage of condoms were even lower for them than heterosexual couples.
And it's even worse how many people living with HIV/AIDS are still treated.
"A vaccine is at least two years away"
jfc the poor sods had no idea what was coming.
+celticwelsh thinking exactly the same! -.-" :/ Sooo many being infected. Lisbon (where i'm from!), Barcelona, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney are dangerously increasing their numbers of infected people! :/ Youngsters don't care stupidly thinking "oh well, it's only a pill a day!..." Dumb fools!... :$
yea its sad
Jonah A, we shall try to be the exemple! ;) Think Globally, Act Locally! :)
Don't hold your breathe! They have been saying that for years. It's always two years away.
the vaccine came out in 96
The Ryan White story is heartbreaking....
I was just a kid when I heard about Ryan White, it was very heart breaking. 💔
I was born in 02 many years after his death, I wish I could’ve hugged him. I wish they would’ve been nice especially since he was just a kind innocent kid who meant no harm. I hope those people can forgive themselves. RIP Ryan🙏🏼
Wow! Having lived through this and having been the attending physician for hundreds of people with AIDS, I had almost blocked out how truly bad the bad old days really were. Thank you for helping me remember how far we have come.
Bless you Dr and thank you for your care in those very scary years
Yes, thank you for the work you do. God bless.
Cancer is far more deadly than aids. Cancer is our next battle!
Wow I would read your book if you wrote one
I was in NY in the 80’s. I remember the government indifference, the panic, patients refused entry to hospital, jon loss, home loss, the the quilt, Silence =death.
Its also sad to look back and see how a poor kid that was no risk to anyone was treated by his own school
Panic knows no logic. AIDS was thought of as potentially infectious as ebola. If you didn't know much about the disease and thought your kid could easily catch it from an infected victim, what would you do? Probably freak out and act in a hostile way.
@theproplady Actually if I was put in that position i would not freak out and act like these god damn hillbillies, I would go outta my way to EDUCATE myself about the REALITIES of the situation then i would make an informed decision based on real scientific data, and if they had done the same Ryan White wouldn't have been treated like this
hitcan79 problem was there wasn't all kinds of information on it it was still murky then on what exactly it was
Ryan White
AIDS was thought of as being that infectious by anyone who didn't bother to educate themselves. Simple as that. If AIDS was as infectious as ebola, all of San Francisco and New York would've been positive. It was quite clear even then that wasn't the case.
As a little gay boy growing up in the 80’s I was absolutely terrified of this disease.
Anthony Strunk I am so sorry. I was a teenager in the 1980s and by the time I even heard of HIV and AIDS, it was late 1984 or early 1985 and I was a junior in high school 17 years old. By the time rock Hudson died I knew more about it and they had testing for the disease but no treatment. I don’t even think they came out with AZT for a couple years and one doctor said that AZT wouldn’t last for a long, BUT she did discover that giving pregnant women the medication did prevent their babies from being born with HIV and that was a huge breakthrough. I put HIV in the same category as cancer. It’s just crawl on the human body and I had to watch both of my parents died from cancer and my dad went from a man 62 years old running 6 miles a day to being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and losing 50 pounds and dying within six months.
B H come on. Do you think that being gay is worse than sex trafficking? I don’t! Don’t judge that you are not judged. Until u are perfect, don’t judge. God only is perfect & gay people “ don’t choose” to be this way. The ONE thing I cannot understand is bisexuality. I’m not judging, but don’t understand it
@B H Nobody can choose to be gay. Or to not be gay. You can choose to not be an asshole though. Maybe you should work on that
Monterey Harris I cant even image being a teenager and in the prime of your sexual drive in the 80’s
B H dumbass you don’t flip a switch and turn your sexuality on or off do u remember when you picked yours? Exactly you don’t!
I appreciate this compilation. I was 20 when the first clip first aired. I was a theatre student, and in the first production of my professional apprenticeship, one of our leading actors fell so ill he barely made it to opening night of an 8-week run of THE MIKADO. He went home; he died a few months later. So even though I was living and studying and working in Tennessee, this was part of my life nearly from the beginning. Between my social acquaintances and theatre colleagues, the next decade was one of loss upon loss. I stopped keeping count; the number of deaths was too high, and the rate too steady, for most of the decade featured here. Thank you for this. We can't forget.
It would be nice if there were a memorial somewhere for those who lost their lives
God bless you... I know what it`s like to lose loved ones...
❤️🌈🙏🏾
How do you know all these people, I've lived in a big city my whole life and never known a single person to have died from it.
poor ryan white :( a bunch of adults bullying a child like that ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Not really, they were just trying to protect their children.
Their response was horrible, way to make a kid who’s probably scared and confused feel even more uncomfortable. No compassion whatsoever.
@@reyskywaka3202 They didn't know a damn thing about the disease, whether it spread through saliva or scratches by nails. They were scared for their children's lives, you have to understand that.
@@spac18 There is no excuse for how they acted. They are POS. They are trash! Period.
@@firstname3255 nope! You clearly don't understand the panic surrounding HIV during that era. The patents believed that their children can get HIV by being in the same room as the infected kid, and there was no solid evidence to prove them wrong. They were doing the right thing based upon their viewpoint.
The documentary "We Were Here" follows the struggles of the early days of the AIDS epidemic. It's a excellent film. I highly suggest watching it.
Also highly recommend!
Silverlake life is also a great one.
If it is free I'll watch but I'm sure the greedy f are going to charge for it
Yep, they want money. Absolutely NOT. I'll watch the free documentaries. They are just as good.
May all who died rest peacefully xo we will never forget you 💕💕
wow its so wierd to see a doctor without protective gloves on, AIDS changed the game.
@R Berg Yes, germ theory was known before HIV and Hep C were discovered. But "the game" has most definitely changed since (and because) those two blood-borne diseases made themselves known. For instance, we knew about germ theory for almost a century, but still it was considered reasonable to manufacture Factor VIII by mixing plasma from thousands of people (many of them prisoners or IV drug users) into a giant vat and then injecting the final product into haemophiliacs. It was also common for healthcare workers in developing nations to reuse/poorly sterilise needles in between patients during mass inoculations. Yes, other blood-borne illnesses were known about long before these two; but the sheer devastation that the AIDS pandemic caused, and the responses that followed, cannot be understated.
You can't get AIDS from touching dimwit. Lol.
@Karen Patterson good timing!..for the coronavirus outbreak!..🤷🏾♂️
@@ownSystem no one thinks you can but us healthcare workers wear gloves as standard protocol now for most activities, especially in the labs! Back in the 80s people smoked in labs times have changed
And the metal syringes obviously being used over and over again lol
How far we have come. Bless all of those who got it before they knew how to prevent it.
I remember this and how the government, especially Reagan, ignored this epidemic...
Despicable for any leader to handle an epidemic that way.
Reagan was an idiot
Wow...this is amazing history. Thanks so much for putting this together and posting. May we never forget
Lol...it's still going on.how can we forget..
The sad part about this video is how ignorance and fear breed hate. It happens over and over again throughout history.
+hello! What if a gay white man is married to a black gay man?
1134gh It's called an exception to the rule.
Nadir Aslam v
I think ex-cons in Texas (who can vote) should marry the ones in Al, Fl, and MS who can't. The civil ceremonies should take place In Texas, so they can be residents and vote. They could use absentee ballots. Then-Texas goes Blue, and the Congress and, in '20 the Presidency is Democratic. We can use the Electoral College against the GOP.
Their promiscuousness was and IS a problem. And, rectal sex is more dangerous from both an AIDS (and Viral Hepatitis) point of view. But the original (and current) spread of AIDS in Africa and Haiti is Heterosexual. But, in THOSE countries, you CAN get AIDS by donating blood. They don't change out the needles and tubing.
If anyone is looking to watch a good documentary on this I suggest the “Silverlake Life: The View from Here”. It’s a deeply personal film made by a couple dying of aids. Hard to watch at times, but worth it. Came up on my CZcams feed.
It's so sad but at the same time so beautiful. RIP Tom and Mark.
Interesting set of videos. Thank you so much for putting them together and uploading it
You're welcome!
SuchIsLifeVideos
It's good to keep this alive for others to watch:)
Mad respect for the doctors and scientists that figured this out. Can’t imagine being presented with an outbreak of a disease no one knows anything about and having to go in blind and isolate and hopefully soon, cure.
Oh no. We found out what that's like.
@@mill336 but there s a HUGE difference. Covid sufferers didn t die with the public spitting on their bodies. Empathy replaced stigma. It reminded me what my friends went through, then... It really deeply hurts, like a second trauma.
Did you jinx the future? 😳 Jk yeah 2 years later we got COVID.
We are ALL just fortunate that AIDS was a sexuallly transmitted disease, as well as other avoidable causes. COVID, while awful, is nowhere near as deadly as AIDS. I just hope that when some disease or virus that DOES have the mortality rate of the early years of AIDS, and there will be one someday, that we are better prepared than we were back then, and in some ways, more prepared than we have been for COVID, or society will be in BIG trouble.
I think we could have handled COVID more effectively. Consistency in how we live and protect ourselves could be much better. Uniformed policies about public interaction, I think, could have saved lives, and what worries me is that as lucky as we were that COVID didnt kill more people, we may not be as lucky next time.
People need to not be so selfish, and take EVERY precaution that is out there to keep ALL of us safe, and not turn a public epidemic into some BS personal rights argument.
fauci made it
Boy, l sure remember the fear and ignorance surrounding this disease in the beginning.
Thanks for the upload. It's fascinating to look back 35 years while you literally know the future. Thanks.
oh my gosh - no gloves? Times have changed. We ALL wear gloves now.
You can't get the virus by skin contact. And on the other side, gloves wouldn't protect you any better if you push a needle in your skin by accident.
@@Philobert Regardless of that fact, the early uncertainty about how contagious HIV actually was largely served as a catalyst for measures that are considered standard practice now. Hence, times have changed.
I left EMS August 1981. Late 80s took the test. I never wore gloves. Negative
Back in the day people smoked in labs! The 80s were a different time. Seems wild to be handling patients or specimens without gloves
Thanks for the post! I have been looking for early news reports on the topic... Very informative to the evolution of AIDS and the response.
Thank you for compiling all these videos. This is a useful historical document for research, especially for communications students who want to examine rhetoric.
The nurse didn't evem have gloves on while taking his blood
Thank you for putting this together and sharing it. I hope this video educates a lot of people about what this time period was like. I graduated High School in 1987 and observed all this as it was happening. Between news reports like these, and social pressure, being gay was the last thing I wanted to be. It's been a rough life. Now I'm in my 40's, and finally living authentically. It takes a long time to get over deep-seated fears.
It was a truly traumatic time to live through. So happy to hear you’ve made it through and now living as your true self. Bless you sir, I hope you live a long, happy and loved life💕
What a brave little boy Ryan was ,poor kid .I understand where the other kids parents were coming from ,the Unknown’s,they were just worried for their kids but what Ryan must have gone through was horrible & he faced it like a trooper .RIP to Ryan & all those who’ve died & have been affected by this tragic awful disease
Dude, the other kids/parents in Indiana were HORRIFIC people. They called him a Fag, said that he deserved to die and go to hell....just awful people (most of those people, if they are alive today...are no doubt Trump Supporters). This was in 1987...it was known by then that you cant get AIDS just from being near someone. Everyone knew that you could only get it from sex/needles...and those Jesus Freaks STILL treated him like a leper.
Thank you for putting this together.
Great compilation. Thank you for posting this.
The story of Ryan White is the most touching. The way he dealt with his disease was just so dignified and the ignorance he encountered was so deplorable. Those parents that tried to keep him out of the school probably were scared but still, they should have known better.
This is definitely one of the better documentaries I've seen on this subject! It's engrossing with not a lot of useless talking; this one tells you something!
Very interesting compilation. Thank you for uploading this. I moved to SF in 1993 for college and was there for the tail end of mass deaths. The Castro was a ghost town and full of walking skeletons. It was extremely frightening as an 18yo to see. Then once the cocktail drugs were developed gay society came back to life.
I hope it came back to life with protection
What a horrifying time to live through. I can only imagine the horror you saw. I’m so sorry for your experience
Im glad you were one of the gay men that made it out safe Nadir.
God bless.
I like that you have this and the other one the "1980s gay rights" because although some of the clips in this are of the same topic, I like how you separated being gay in the 80s from being gay with AIDS, very thoughtful. like both videos.
Great compilation. I wish u could do a sub title indicating dates or at least the years of each clip. Enjoyable history viewings indeed. Thanks.
If you click on the ABOUT tab, you will see a list of the topics and the dates.
God this is depressing...
A good and important compilation. Well made. Thx.
So many dead. So sad.
Wow. As a young gay male I've always been really hesitant and kind of fearful of looking at and listening to the whole 80s Aids thing, but recently, I've gathered up the courage to confront what could have possibly been my situation. I guess I used to be resentful of people who died of AIDS or living with it - because - I felt that it was such a dramatic distraction from gay rights. I mean, anyone can get a disease, why is Aids associated with being gay? I know why it was, but it used to piss me off that antigay people and gay people always had to bring out the AIDS card. Now. I get it. I get that my own fear of the "aids story" was really an attempt to whitewash the past in order to justify the present. Terrible things happen to a lot of demographics (slavery !) but in denying the turmoil we can forget how to be human and become selfish. Ugh, I'm rambling I think. I'm just trying to cope living in this ugly at times world.
As a young gay male learning of the mass deaths that occurred in the very recent past, I can only imagine how traumatic that would. It would be impossible not to relate or to see yourself in those that were affected or died.
I commend you for taking the time to learn of this history, it is vital to remember this, to pass on the learnings of the past.
If you ignore history you may end up repeating it
Good post. People need to learn more about history. To ignore history pretty much guarantees that history will repeat itself.
Thank you so much for stitching this video together. An invaluable resource. 💚
Well done. Thank you. I just wish that, because this covers 10 years, you would have captioned some dates on the clips.
I was quite young during the aids epidemic. I remember 2 of my mothers coworkers died of the illness; one had contracted it from a blood transfusion and it was speculated the other contracted it via sex. I remember everyone being paranoid of contraction at the time.
I’ve been around since 1981 I never met anyone with it until last year my dear friend got it from someone who infected that person in purpose. It’s not even a felony California is ridiculous my friend also got hepatitis c from the boyfriend.
@@Greencloud8 😥
Thanks for posting this. Lest we forget 🙏🏻
You have no idea, I was there. The brilliant people, the beautiful souls that succumbed to this disease.
It’s devastating to think of all we lost, the future we could have had of these people lived.
Wow. I actually prepared myself to only watch the first 10 min. of this, but I found myself engaged and saddened to the very end. I was actually born nearly a month after AIDS was discovered, born on June 5th 1981, so I was never a gay adult through this time period, but man. What a scary and infuriating time it must have been to be gay. I mean I've witnessed the homophobia of the mid- to late 90s and on, but I'm thankful I never lived through this point in history. Ignorance and hate was so easily spread back in those days, whether it was racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, homophobia, whatever. There were no weekly national conversations and hot topic discussions among regular common people on the scale we have today. I'm also so eternally thankful for you making this video so that the generations of us that never lived through this can know what those times were like. Thank you. I will also have to set aside time to watch your other video, 1970s News Clips on Gay Rights. I'm sure it, just like this video, will be like watching our own gay version of Roots. Thank you so much for this valuable history lesson.
I remember when it was discovered and mentioned in all media (television, newspapers, etc.). I was born in June of 1972, so I was nine years old at the time and hearing of all this- and ultimately confused and terrified because there was so much being said. I didn't have a clue as to what homosexuality was- let alone sex. But I remember the religious zealots (mostly the adults with low-class ignorance in my life at that time) were all saying it was a disease given to us by God to punish us for going against his will and the will of nature. It wasn't until I was in high school ('88-'91) that I started to realize that wasn't the case at all. I remember thinking, "Who would want to believe in a God like that?"
As I got older and expanded my friends, I realized that we're all human rather gay or strait, and this wasn't a "gay disease" at all. As I dug in a little deeper, I realized it was meant for population control.
I'm a strait man who has worked in music and met some of the most amazing musicians (both gay & strait) through my playing years. You learn to accept people regardless of their lifestyles because there's one thing I've found out about life:
People don't reflect or remember the way you died- They reflect and remember the way you lived.
cuerollen Although that whole population control part you mentioned was questionable, that was a great comment.
If not gay why so much interest in gay subject?
@@cuerollen Population control ? LOL!
@@rodolfocontreras4051 being human
This is going to help so much with my reserach paper! Thanks for putting all this together!
Ammythegreat1 Something else that will help on your research paper. www.google.com/patents/US5676977 the governments cure for aids.
thank you!!
Very important upload. Thank you.
I never realized it was so bad. I've lived my whole life with AIDS just Being part of reality. I never would have believed that things were this bad.
How old are you
J Hibberd People over 40 begin being born in 1979 therefore they kind of live in a oblivious to it in the early days
J Hibberd i was born in 1981 literally had birthday yesterday. I didn’t understand until I was 13 in class they scared the shut out of me
Growing up in the 80s, I was shielded from the news coverage of AIDS. Watching it now is disturbing and sad, but at the same time people were scared because the full facts weren't known. Thankfully, progress has come along significantly.
By the time Ryan White was infected with AIDS, people knew that the only way you could get it was via sex/needles....and The Jesus Freaks in Indiana STILL vilified Ryan White. Due was a 12 year old kid! Those same people are no doubt Trump Supporters today.
wow, thank you for posting this..
Very informative video, just wish the description had times each individual report started!
To be fair, nobody in the early years of HIV, knew what would play out for our society. People did the best they could, with the information they had.
Not true. If AIDS was so infectious as to be that easily transmitted, all of New York and San Francisco would've had it. Realistically, it'd be very nearly a universal disease.
No. No they didn’t. They ignored it. Wouldn’t fund research.
“Did it make you rethink that lifestyle?” Yeah, it’s exactly like the choice I made when I decided to paint the kitchen beige...
Heaven only knows how we got through those years, what with a milquetoast press petrified to discuss the issue other than to paint everyone who had it as deserving of such a fate. These were the plague years. Our press failed us, our government failed us, drug companies reaped in unholy amounts of money from us, it is amazing that any of us made it through. But yet here we are... some of us anyway. Sheer spite in some cases being the reason for surviving.
I'm a transmasc non-binary millionial. Hellspawn, to some. And fighting tooth & nail through the transphobia that threatens to rip us apart today. It breaks my heart to watch the pitch black darkness you walked through. Thank you, for showing us that there is a path through.
Very interesting. Thanks for this compilation!
this is really fabulous work. It would be good if there was a visual indication that it is a new clip. Can be a bit jarring to watch.
sad sad sad. so many lives lost. so many funerals.
I was teenager leaving in São Paulo Brazil, one of the world hot spots of the disease, and was a living horror, watching friends and known people been consuming by it.
God bless those early healthcare workers and first responders who had more compassion than fear. ❤️
thank you for this video..this gonna help with my investigation
Camilo Guanes how far along are u with the investigation?
I have a lot of respect for the surgeon general who took a stand against Reagan and worked to make sure people were educated
There was a team of people fighting against Reagan and for funding. One name you may recognise from this year is Dr. Fauci. He met with campaigners at the time (Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Act Ip! Groups to name two) he listened to what they needed and was able to get help to many more men.
Since the movie about Queen came out, I've watched all the old reports on early aids. Freddie Mercury's death has definitely brought back to life how horrible Aids was and still is during that time….:-(
Thanks for posting this, this virus is horrible, and I do pray that a cure will be found soon!
It's so incredibly sad to see how clueless everyone was. They didn't know anything about HIV and AIDS.
+LawndaleLion stfu. evryone cares you fucking moron. they didnt know.
a lot of people are still ignorant and uneducated on the topic of AIDS it's sad it really is
+LawndaleLion those who forget their past are prone to recreate it
Because it was a new disease.. Derp
Great video post! Young gay males should all watch this. Boy how far we have come
God bless little trooper Ryan White what a wonderful kid. Fighting to live a normal life. RIP little genius.
I remember around that time people were afraid That it would become airborne like the common old. Compassion. No one deserves this shit.
We were all very lucky it wasnt airborne. Considering the mortality rate for more than a decade of AIDS before the cocktail, it would have been worse than the plague considering how world travel was so much more prevelant.
Very educational. Thanks.
Took care of a family member in 92 who had this was the worst thing to witness.
Im sorry :(
I’m so sorry
Mr.Belevelder, DesigningWomen, and The Golden Girls were the only sitcoms that talked about the subject of Aids. All three shows spoke about Aids beautifully with making fun of Aids.
Girlfriends too.
Family matters too
Examination without gloves in second clip was odd. Did we do things that way back in those days? btw I mean no matter what the ailment for which he was examining.
Yes back then gloves weee not common even in labs. I mean for goodness sake people still smoked in labs, seems crazy now! Haha.
But thankfully gloves are standard protocol now.
nice editing on this
@Robert Mack Thanks for watching. I was in high school too & felt the exact same way!
Thank you for posting this.
Great compilation! Thanks for sharing.
+SuchIsLifeVideos Thank you so much! I was wondering if you have more clips after 1992? if not where can i find them? you've done a marvelous job thanks again
+Anon Girl do you know if there is a test to see if you have the immunity to hiv.
Thnx for video...great story.
That poor child. 😢 R.I.P Ryan White:.
I think the aids quilt was very sad and touching
I'm from that Era, it was as scary as you could imagine. Covid?🙄 please girl. Aids killed all but three friends of mine. I'm still here and by the grace if God I'm negative. I'm still traumatized over this. The memories,the visuals, the smell of death everywhere, a funeral a week!!. The walls and walls of boxes filled with medications 💊 I mean 30 and 40 boxes, that was for 1 month of treatments.
Man, Reagan really dropped the ball on fighting HIV...
That’s putting it delicately
That man was a whole mess!!!!
This was the Corona virus of the 80's/there was just no social media and internet,can you imagine the chaos.
I was alive then and it really wasn't it was a totally different beast nothing like now with Covid-19.
@@jokerz7936 are you saying covids worse?
@@theheavytruth6309 no he’s saying the aids virus was worse. Which is true. Nonetheless we still have to be careful with viruses.
@@theheavytruth6309 no Covid is much more contagious but most people recover and a vaccine has already been produced.
There is no cure for AIDS, we can only slow it. And back then it was a death sentence.
2:50 a former drug addict who works on Wall St.
We need to take responsibility for our actions. Self control and respect of others goes along way. Respect yourself and others
Yes I'm not sure how much of that message came across. We are both responsible & accountable for how we treat our bodies. It's got nothing to do with sexuality
You are correct. It’s was known to be sexually transmitted and through needles. They couldn’t refrain from sex, use protection, or not share needles or quit taking drugs intravenously? I don’t understand. I really don’t. It would have slowed it down soooo dramatically. But I guess sleeping around unprotected is worth a horrible death in some eyes. Not mine.
I am 54 yrs old...I was diagnosed with full blown AIDS in 1988, two yrs into my enlistment in the Marine Corps, and two yrs from leaving my hometown. I eventually moved off the naval base in Oakland where I was stationed, into the city of San Francisco (that was 1988). So, I was all of 19 yrs old and some change. I will never allow ANYONE to make me feel bad, indifferent or ashamed of what Ive been thru, where HIV is concerned. I wont allow it.
Because my journey with this partiuclar disease, first started with an enormous amount of shame and embarrassment, that was born out of the stigma that AIDS carries....and what I didnt know all those yrs ago, but Im very clear about now, is that I DID NOTHING WRONG. I had unprotected sex, just like millions of straight people do every single day. So when I say, I wont allow anyone to give me a hard time about HIV/AIDS?..I fucking mean it. Ive seen wayyyy too many friends and acquaintances leave out of here from AIDS...and in their wake, they left behind people who would have given their own lives, to keep them alive. So with that said, I would like to say 'thank you" to these people, below..
but for, warriors from groups like GMHC, ACT UP & TAG (Larry Kramer, Peter Staley, Jim Geigo, Garance Franke-Guta, Ann Northrop, Mark Harrington, Dr Iris Long, David Barr, Derek Link, Gregg Gonsalves, Bob Rafsky, Roger McFarland, Nathan Fain, Lawrence Mass, Paul Popham, Paul Rapaport and Ed White)??...I would have been dead, a very long time ago. Their collective footwork, efforts, devotion, and diligence, led to making the pipedream known as "AIDS meds" a reality...were it not for all of these men and women, forcing political and health authorities to pay attention and money, at the same time..there would have been FAR MORE deaths from AIDS, including mine.
People dont seem to grasp just how desperate those time were...there was NOTHING..there were no meds or resources to help those who were infected and mainly poor. But again, these men and women rolled their sleeves up and just refused to be quiet or passive. And I am grateful to them, for saving my life...LITERALLY.
Thank you for your service Marine.
If women were as easy sexually as gay men are (I'm a straight man whose HELLA JEALOUS when it comes to gay men's ability/willingness to have sex with each other)....AIDS would have wrecked The Straight Community just as bad as it wrecked The Gay Community. It was just bad luck on The Gay Community's part that AIDS hit them first. As FCUKED UP as the average White Person was back then when it came to AIDS, I can only imagine how FCUKED UP it was when it came to being a Black Man with AIDS in The Black Community (sadly to say, The Black Community is probably the most homophobic community out there....they were the ones who voted highest %-wise against Gay Marriage when it was voted on in California years ago). You seem to have persevered through it.
those bath houses were the hotbeds for Aids
I am a gay man and all my prevention education came from GMHC in the 1990's. The NYC Department of Health is pathetic.
So sad. COMPASSION!
Thanks for uploading; this is historically significant videos. One of the major health threats of our times.
Uncle was infected. I wasn’t alive but, I see pictures of him with aids. My dad to me that one day his immune system killed it. What was so weird is that he was expected to only have 2 months left. His purple spots haven’t gone away. His eye has been closed with a lesion. But he’s happy
How did he get infected?
Fun Fact!: Donald Trump attended Ryan White’s funeral along with other celebrities such as Elton John and Micheal Jackson.
LittleMissBadAss Donald Trumps lawyer in the 70s and 80s, Roy Cohn, died of aids. Cohn also worked for McCarthey in the 50s.
Is this information true
Sad
@@stanley-elmagico yes
Stanley Ace there is footage of him going to Ryan’s home w michale Jackson giving his mom a big hug righ after Ryan died.
RIP Larry Kramer 🙏🏼
My good college buddy got AID and he withered away fast. Very sad.
I remember working in a VD clinic at the time in the Bay Area, what surprised me at the time is that all men coming in for VD treatment were circumcised men. I started wondering at the time how bogus circumcision was for preventing VD
Circumcision does absolutely nothing for any infection really. The idea that it protects people from disease or virus is completely untrue.
The treatment given to Ryan White by his community must rank as one of the most disgusting ignorant acts ever done by a "Christian" community, Totally shameful. Hypocrites the lot of them....
You know
I'm sure they all feel like assholes today
Greencloud8
I doubt they would be capable of it.
philster611 his mom is a christian and she was furious of how ppl treated him like thrash
Jason Browne
I wonder if she is still a Christian....
What more do you expect from a group of religious people willing to conform their entire lives to the rules of a book supposedly written by some higher power despite evidence to disprove the deity they believe so desperately in? They don't understand Logic Reason or Rationality.. Of course they'd react with panic and chaos.
I been infected since 82 and I'm still pissed off!!!!
How’d you get it? If you had aids in 82 you probably got hiv a decade earlier
And your alive. What's to be upset about. Everyone is dead your alive. Time to change and make everything better.
@@ownSystem And the award for the dumbest comment ever goes to…
And yet here you are, still alive. It’s a much better result than the 40,000,000+ people that died from that same positive test.
@SuchIsLifeVideos do you know where I could look to get similar videos, but from Denmark during the same time period?
I was born in the middle of this and as I grow now I strive to learn more and more about this dark period that somehow, managed to have light spark in it.
I worked for the doctor who petitioned the state of Michigan to reinstate state sponsored methadone treatment during the "crisis". We were one of the few medical clinics that provided services to the gay community in Motown.
We lost so many bright and beautiful client in the pre-retro viral days and it was heart breaking to hear how the press talked about therm and to them..
Did y'all loose a lot of them from methadone overdoses? Because prescribed methadone has killed 1000s of ppl including my dad.. Js
God Bless U
Watch “And The Band Played On”
exetier The movie is great, the book is even better. I felt chills reading about the lack of government response, while death rates soared. The most unnerving person documented in was the Swedish airline steward who traveled the world infecting people because he felt he was the bigger victim because he had been infected.
Excellent movie. Even better book.
The normal heart is a good one too...
All those lost are remembered here and always.
Reading the book
To the channel owner @suchislifevideos , do you have a list of the news sources you pulled the individual news clips from that you could share? Thank you!
Remember when there was a 5 hour long video of this?
Lou Sullivan is a personal hero/inspiration of mine, he died if AIDS way before his time. RIP Lou...