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When I met her, I didn’t fall for Iris Moulton like a ton of bricks. No, I actually tripped over her, like she was a ton of bricks.
“The disaster, as Dad and others saw it, was the emerging AIDS crisis and the cultural attacks instigated by conservative against gay men and women in the early 1980s. It was found in the cruel indifference of President Ronald Reagan, who wouldn’t publicly address the epidemic until the end of his second term, after twenty thousand Americans had died, and the hostile rhetoric of conservatives close to Reagan like Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, and Pat Buchanan, Reagan’s future speechwriter. In 1983, Buchanan wrote of AIDS, “The poor homosexuals–they have declared war upon nature, and now nature is extracting an awful retribution.”
― Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
― Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
“People don't understand AIDS," I said.
"They understand just fine," Celia said. "They just think that he deserves it because of how he got it.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
"They understand just fine," Celia said. "They just think that he deserves it because of how he got it.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
“Everything I learned I learned from the
movies.”
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movies.”
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“Paying for your lover’s funeral is the gay version of a bar mitzvah. It is how you know that you have become a man.”
― Rat Bohemia
― Rat Bohemia
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