Wednesday, May 18, 2016
AIDS means gay
The 80's was a time of revolution for many people in the United States. Many found good changes, many of our citizens also had a miserable experience during the 80's. These people had AIDS, a sexually transmitted disease. People did not know where AIDS came from causing it to be a great fear. During earlier years, it was associated with homosexuals. AIDS was viewed as a punishment from god for being homosexual. The government sadly did not pay much attention to this deadly disease until much later. The disease eventually spread to a great portion of the population regardless of gender or orientation.
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Before the 1980s, AIDS was associated with homosexuality in the public eye. A lot of this is likely out of fear and an unawareness of how the disease was transmitted. However, in the 1980s, many more people, including famous people, ending up getting the disease. This eventually lead to people paying more attention to the harmful affects of AIDS and not making assumptions that it was a homosexual disease.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alexis that "Aids means gay" isn't a very fitting title in reflection of the truth of AIDS in the 1980s. However I believe that it does accurately describe the perception of AIDS most people had in the 1980s, since according to the documentary there was not a lot of knowledge about how people got AIDs and how to treat it, and since many of the people who got AIDs were homosexuals people associated it with homosexuality.
ReplyDeleteI agree with my classmates that that is kind of a misleading title. However, I liked that in your blog post you went on to say that this was actually just society's perception of the disease and that this was not actually true, and that they only started to believe that AIDs was not a punishment of homosexuality after it had spread.
ReplyDeleteI know this has been said but I agree with all my classmates. When I saw the title, I wanted to comment because I think it is important to understand which words are right for a certain events. The title though was the only misleading part because you later say that society interpreted that way", and it wasn't actually true. I think some kind of punctuation could have helped to make the title a little less misleading. I wish you had said a little more about how they discovered what aids actually was and how people started realizing it was not some sort of illness that only "outsiders" would get.
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