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minus-squareLost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·9 days ago…why was that ban in effect to begin with? I can understand during the 80s, with the misunderstandings of AIDS. Basically by 1992, this shouldn’t have been a thing.
minus-squarerenegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·9 days agoThat’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.
…why was that ban in effect to begin with? I can understand during the 80s, with the misunderstandings of AIDS.
Basically by 1992, this shouldn’t have been a thing.
That’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.