Hillary Clinton says she misspoke about how Reagans dealt with Aids crisis

The Guardian ^ | March 11, 2016 | Sam Levin

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Hillary Clinton outraged LGBT activists on Friday with her comments at Nancy Reagan's funeral praising the former first lady for helping start a "national conversation" about HIV...
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Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area – who survived the epidemic and had watched friends and loved ones die in great numbers – consider the Reagans, through their inaction, responsible for the death of thousands of LGBT people.

[kevcol]

Cankles having a bad week

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[mrmeyer]

Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area – who survived the epidemic and had watched friends and loved ones die in great numbers – consider the Reagans, through their inaction, responsible for the death of thousands of LGBT people.

So it was Reagan's job to save them from themselves?

[mrsmel]

I don’t see how it was Nancy Reagan’s job to do it, she wasn’t president (probably a foreign concept to Shillary, who thought she was co-president with her rapist husband), and Nancy had already chosen the war on drugs (what anyone thinks of that is a different topic entirely) as her First Lady cause.

[jessduntno]

“Hillary Clinton outraged LGBT activists on Friday...”

Are they ever NOT outraged?

[mrsmel]

It is always someone else's job (and money) to save leftists from their own hedonistic or careless choices.

[forgotten man]

If the Reagans hated gay people so much why were they such good friends with Merv Griffin and Johnny Mathis? Yes, Johnny Mathis is gay.

[HarleyLady27]

No she didn’t miss speak, she said it exactly right....remember she NEVER lies!!!/s

[ColdOne]

Is that Gov Moonbeam next to Mochelle? He looks like he is asleep. I moch is her usual self....not smiling.

[mrsmel]

No, because they will never stop being at war with themselves for being perverts. The louder they shout, the more they’re trying drown out their consciences, until they are finally given over to a depraved mind.

[Slyfox]

I remember during the Clinton administration where a group of gays were livid at how much they did not do to help them.

Whoopsie.

[Sooth2222]

Obviously, it was all Reagan's fault for causing the HIV virus to respect "heterosexual white male privilege". "Just say no" would have worked fine for HIV, too.

[sphinx]

The first impulse of the Reagan Administration was to treat AIDS like any other public health emergency, with appropriate public education campaigns, screening, and behavior modification. But AIDS was different. The junkies didn’t want to be policed, and the homosexuals went to war to demand that the link to homosexuality be airbrushed out of the picture. AIDS was to be everybody’s disease. Even closing the bathhouses was a bitter point of controversy. Bottom line, I have no sympathy for the gay community on this one. They brought it on themselves.

[longfellow]

How many did bj infect in Canada when he kept selling tainted blood from prisoners.

[shotgun]

IIRC the Reagan administration wanted to close the bath houses to stop the spread of HIV/Aids. But the gays went all anti-homophobic and protested that they were being singled out, so the closings never happened. They were free to die as this chose...

Just think how many of their lives would have been spared.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

<<< Advocates in the San Francisco Bay Area – who survived the epidemic >>>

Hard to believe any SF queers from the 80s are still alive.

[DoughtyOne]

[tuffydoodle]

Are you freaking kidding me? Merv Griffin and Johnny Mathis are both poofters???

[Kozy]

How about the ballerina son? He is a little light in the sneakers.

[forgotten man]

Dianne Fineswine was mayor of San Francisco at that time. She kept the gay bath houses open when the virus was just beginning to spread.