Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis - Chapter One: "Buried Headline"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Exactly 40 years ago, news first broke into the mainstream of a deadly new disease, a disease that’s come to infect tens of millions of people around the world. Eric Marcus was coming of age and coming out during those first terrifying and confusing years of the AIDS crisis as friends and neighbors fell ill and died. Those were years that he's tried hard not to remember. They’re also years he can’t forget.
After decades of mining other people’s oral histories, Eric is digging into his own. He's returning to memories from 1981 to 1988, trying to reconstruct what happened. This is chapter one: “Buried Headline.”
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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.
Thanks for listening and for your comment. I'm sorry for your loss. I often think of all the friends and one-time boyfriends who didn't live beyond their 20s and 30s. Tragic.
I'm so happy you are doing this. This generation of gay males need to listen to this over and over.
Yes, I agree! There's a lot to be learned from this aspect of our history.
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.
Thank you for your very kind words about the podcast! It is still unbelievable to me that the Deputy Press Secretary was so cruelly cold-hearted. But then the president was, too. They just stood by as tens of thousands of people died. Beyond tragic. The memories still haunt me. Thanks again! Best, Eric
Wonderful podcast. Thank you 🫶
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@@EricMarcus-e8m You rock sir ❤️
So sincere, deep and genuine
Thanks to share it with us
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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.
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!
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.
Yes! I agree!
Thats crazy how the president at the time reacted stupid af
I agree! And it was a tragedy.
Republicans shouldn't be allowed to run anything, anywhere, ever. And they are so much worse now. At least they accepted election results and didn't try to overthrow thr government in the 1980s.
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