“We shouldn't live in fear, and that's something that happened during the AIDS crisis,” artist John Hanning said. “They were afraid of gay people, because of AIDS or HIV, and hopefully with this coronavirus, there won't be that stigma.”
AIDS activist Peter Staley in 2014. After contracting HIV in the mid-'80s, Staley quit his job as a Wall Street bond trader and has been a prominent advocate for testing and treatment ever since.Eventually, behavior modification caught on and helped slow the relentless spread of HIV among gay men.
At first, many gay men resisted taking the HIV test because there were no treatments for AIDS and no legal protections for those who tested positive. But eventually, after activist groups likeand Treatment Action Group began to apply wider and more dramatic pressure on government agencies to enhance HIV privacy protections and scale up research spending, testing became more widespread, and the dynamics of how the virus spread began to come into view.
Now, however, with limited and conflicting information about the coronavirus, Northrop said she feels that same “generalized anxiety” that struck many people, particularly gay men, in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.
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