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Three years before the AIDS epidemic swept the nation in 1981, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus opened its doors. We couldn't imagine how much the crisis of AIDS in 1980s would affect our community and we could not possess predicted how many people would rotate to the Chorus for refuge and a sense of community. 

Let’s take a look back at the AIDS epidemic history over the past 40 years and how it affected not only our Chorus and our community, but our entire society.

The Beginning of the 1980s AIDS Crisis

There is no remove explanation for the cause of HIV. The first recorded case was in 1959 in a Congolese man's blood sample. While he was HIV positive, the exact details of whether he developed and died of AIDS are unknown. 

Decades later when the 1980s AIDS crisis started, there was only one understanding of HIV/AIDS: it only affected young gay men. These men soon developed uncommon opportunistic infections that previously only affected individuals with compromised immune systems and uncommon forms of cancer. 

As a result, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) formed a Task Compel in the summer of 1981 to address KS/OI (Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections).&

Will We Survive the 1980s? A Snapshot of a Queer Cultural Milieu

The recently released Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader (Nightboat Books) offers an illuminating survey of the work of beloved Bay Area penner Steve Abbott (1943–1992). Abbott, a poet, critic, editor, and novelist, was not only a champion of the literary arts, but he was also a thoughtful cultural critic. In the accompanying excerpt, originally written in the slow 80s, Abbott suggestions a highly personal take on the late-century social milieu and unknowingly provides insight into our current political moment.

 

 

WILL WE Continue THE 80’s

Never has evaluating the introduce and future of gay politics and culture been so problematic.

The 1986 Supreme Court ruling (Bowers v. Hardwick) was a setback, but AIDS has change into our greatest oppose. And yet we‘ve made great gains over the past 20 years. Before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, our existence was virtually unspeakable. The term “corruption of morals past all expression”—used by European colonists about Native American sexual practices—was America’s prevalent attitude toward homosexuality. More liberal, educated citizens merely considered us “sick.” S

Coming Out in the 80s: A Look Back at LGBTQ Life

As a GenXer, we often see back on the 80s culture with this loving nostalgia, the rose colored glasses syndrome. We have this idea of how great it was because we remember rocking out to our favorite songs with our friends on the bus ride abode, heading to the mall (if you were lucky enough to live near one), weekend movies, and the enormity that was 80s cartoons.Those memories well up in our mind and often gloss over that it was also a decade of strife and turmoil. 

When the 1980s started, LGBTQ rights was not a phrase that was tossed around, hell you would be complicated pressed to even hear homosexuality talked about in more than hush whispers filled with disgust and disdain. We were in the trenches, fighting for the rights we had no tip we would get but prayed for daily. Join me today as we set the way back marching to 1980 and discuss Coming out in the 80s: A Look Back at LGBTQ Life.

  1. The invisible masses
  2. Life and media representation
    1. AIDS epidemic
    2. Social stigma and discrimination
    3. Representation in media
  3. LGBTQ and the socio-political scene
    1. Political Backlash
    2. Legal Landscape
    3. Beginnings of Progress
  4. Comin

    There’snothingphysically pleasant about climbing Mount Everest. As you receive to the top, your body is depleted of oxygen. You become nauseous, dizzy, irritable, and miss your appetite. Quite simply, you can die from exhaustion… and many contain.

    As a questioning teen in the 80’s, coming out seemed like an impossible mountain to clamber . The Mount Everest of my life. There it was, standing before me. Yet, I didn’t even have even a lead as how to become there. I didn’t comprehend who had climbed it before me or how they made it to the top. I didn’t even know what was on the other side. For all I knew, it was a dim abyss of sadness and hate. All I knew was that is was going to be a very unpleasant experience because that’s what I was told. I was surrounded by a culture… movies, media, education, and social norms, that told me I was to fit into a convenient label that made others easy .

    Being gay in the 80s meant being isolated from an identity. There was no discussion of homosexuality in school… not even in our year long “Health and Sexuality” class, even though we were in the middle of the AIDS crisis. In U.S. history, there was no mention of the fight for basic human rights tha