{"id":25965,"date":"2015-10-02T00:20:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T04:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-lgbt-history-can-inspire-hope-support-health-and-even-prevent-hiv\/"},"modified":"2015-10-02T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T04:20:36","slug":"how-lgbt-history-can-inspire-hope-support-health-and-even-prevent-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/how-lgbt-history-can-inspire-hope-support-health-and-even-prevent-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"How LGBT History Can Inspire Hope, Support Health, and Even Prevent HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>How LGBT History Can Inspire Hope, Support Health, and Even Prevent HIV<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;A people deserves a history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s how Larry Kramer&#8211;Tony and Emmy-winning playwright, author, and America&#8217;s best-known HIV\/AIDS activist&#8211;spoke about the just-released first volume of his two-volume novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-People-Search-Heart-Novel\/dp\/0374104395\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1443744036&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Larry+Kramer+The+American+People\" target=\"_hplink\">The American People<\/a><\/em>. Kramer has labored over the book for decades, fine-tuning his sometimes fanciful American history from a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> point of view.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I want every <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> person to be aware of our history,&#8221; Kramer told me, &#8220;whether or not I&#8217;ve fictionalized it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> He added, &#8220;You should know your history. I want <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> history taught in schools. And they don&#8217;t teach it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> I interviewed Kramer in his Manhattan apartment on July 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/interview\/the-more-noise-the-more-they-listen\" target=\"_hplink\">for the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em><\/a> and for my forthcoming book about building <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&#8217;s resilience.<\/p>\n<p> Being familiar with, and drawing inspiration from, our history as LGBT people can contribute tremendously to our personal resilience.<\/p>\n<p> We are heirs of what I <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">call<\/a> &#8220;LGBT America&#8217;s heroic legacy,&#8221; the acts and words of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who chose to stand up for their humanity, integrity, and fully equal American citizenship&#8211;rather than accept the shame and silence they were told was their lot in life for being &#8220;different.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> They often paid a steep price: Diagnosed by psychiatrists as mentally ill because they weren&#8217;t heterosexual. Condemned by religious institutions. Disowned by families. Even left to fend for themselves in the face of a terrifying new disease called AIDS.<\/p>\n<p> Before President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s health department in 1982 declared AIDS the nation&#8217;s &#8220;number one health priority,&#8221; Larry Kramer and five other <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in New York began raising money for research and formed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmhc.org\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Gay Men&#8217;s Health Crisis (GMHC)<\/a>, the world&#8217;s first&#8211;and still largest&#8211;organization to advocate and care for people living with HIV\/AIDS. <\/p>\n<p> Nursing homes, used to caring for elderly patients, were not prepared in the early eighties (or today) to care for young <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> in their twenties, thirties, and forties. So <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and their friends created from scratch a parallel network of health care and social service organizations, like GMHC, to care for their own.<\/p>\n<p> Back then advocacy included arguing with ambulance drivers to take deathly sick people with AIDS&#8211;mainly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&#8211;to the hospital. Care meant doing errands and arranging doctor visits for clients who were terminally ill, at some stage of cancer, dementia, or pneumocystis pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p> By the end of 2011, HIV\/AIDS had already killed an estimated 311,087 <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> American <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>. Fifty-seven percent of the estimated 500,022 persons living with an HIV diagnosis at the time were <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Two-thirds of all Americans living with HIV, and newly infected each year, are still <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a>&#8211;even though we account for only an estimated two percent of the population. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/group\/msm\/index.html\" target=\"_hplink\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p> Black <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> accounted for the largest number of new infections (10,600, or 36 percent) in 2010. Among them, young black <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">males<\/a> between age 13 to 24 made up nearly half the total&#8211;a 20 percent increase from 2008.<\/p>\n<p> For any of us who lived through the dark years of the 1980s&#8211;and particularly for those of us living with HIV, including myself&#8211;despair can seem a natural response to numbers like these.<\/p>\n<p> They certainly make one thing very clear: America is still failing to stop the spread of HIV and is far from achieving the &#8216;AIDS-free generation&#8217; envisioned by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p> As I examine HIV prevention education aimed at <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">bisexual<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> for my new book, one thing is clear: to work, prevention education must go beyond PrEP and condoms. It has to address the drivers of risk behavior&#8211;the feelings and needs in our hearts and minds that compel us to engage in <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> the way we do, even to attribute meaning to particular sexual acts.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier prevention efforts, growing out of a desperate wish to arrest the spread of HIV as quickly as possible, were based on a &#8220;deficit&#8221; model. They told us simply &#8220;use a condom every time.&#8221; No questions asked. They assumed we couldn&#8217;t be trusted to make healthy choices based on factual information, and frequently invoked fear to douse our libidos.<\/p>\n<p> Newer efforts, in contrast, draw upon what is referred to as a &#8220;strength-based&#8221; or &#8220;resilience-based&#8221; model, aimed at strengthening our confidence, pride and resilience. <\/p>\n<p> Starting from a place of respect and validation, these interventions work essentially to build hope. Their premise is simple, really: Men who are hopeful about their future will naturally want to protect themselves to be here for it and healthy enough to enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to give them hope,&#8221; is how Harvey Milk, America&#8217;s first openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> elected official, put it in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X9vol-8HYEc\" target=\"_hplink\">1978 speech<\/a>. Milk understood that inspiring hope in a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a>&#8217;s heart could mean the difference between a happy future&#8211;and suicide.<\/p>\n<p> In this LGBT History Month, claiming as our own the powerful legacy of people like Harvey Milk and Larry Kramer, who stood up and now stand out in our history, offers a powerful source of hope and resilience, a solid foundation for HIV prevention and for good health. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/terms.html\/\">terms.<\/a> It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/1\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/1\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/2\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/2\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/3\/rc.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rc.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/rc\/3\/rc.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/ach.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/adchoice.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/ach.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi2.feedsportal.com\/r\/241225293141\/u\/197\/f\/677065\/c\/35496\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/a2t2.img\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677065\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/mf.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677065\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/l\/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0Cjohnmanuel0Eandriote0Cfor0Enational0Egay0Emens0Ehiv0Ib0I8190A610A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fgay0Evoices0Gir0FGay0KVoices\/story01.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/c\/35496\/f\/677065\/s\/4a56d519\/sc\/7\/l\/0L0Shuffingtonpost0N0Cjohnmanuel0Eandriote0Cfor0Enational0Egay0Emens0Ehiv0Ib0I8190A610A0Bhtml0Dutm0Ihp0Iref0Fgay0Evoices0Gir0FGay0KVoices\/story01.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How LGBT History Can Inspire Hope, Support Health, and Even Prevent HIV &#8220;A people deserves a history.&#8221; That&#8217;s how Larry Kramer&#8211;Tony and Emmy-winning playwright, author, and America&#8217;s best-known HIV\/AIDS activist&#8211;spoke about the just-released first volume of his two-volume novel The American People. 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