When AIDS first emerged, local TV news made a difference

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  • @stephencraig7130
    @stephencraig7130 Рік тому +53

    Howard Dow was reporting this early on. I'll never forget that. His reporting was unparalleled.
    Thank you, Howard.

  • @Mr.Majestic77
    @Mr.Majestic77 2 роки тому +114

    Actually, that silent virus was already wreeking havoc, in the United States, since the 1960s (about 1964) and the manifestation of AIDS revealed itself in 1980-1982.

    • @jasonfoley6502
      @jasonfoley6502 2 роки тому +31

      and it wasn't tied only to the gay community. In New York, it was rampant among the homeless especially the drug addicts called "Junkie Pneumonia".

    • @smiley1960
      @smiley1960 2 роки тому +27

      @@jasonfoley6502 a doctor I know said he saw it in a 3 year old child in Newark NJ in 1976, mother was an addict. He didn't know what to make of it then.

    • @jasonfoley6502
      @jasonfoley6502 2 роки тому +8

      @@smiley1960 There was one with woman and her child or three children in 1977 i think and she died in 1987 from AIDS a few years after her child or three children. There was also another one with a child born to a teenage mother who had multiple sex partners.

    • @jamesbedukodjograham5508
      @jamesbedukodjograham5508 Рік тому +1

      @@smiley1960 I suspect that HIV has been in America since the early 1960s but the lax morals of the late 1970s made the Gay Community to be free.
      Sex is supposed to be a man and a woman,
      This illness has made all of us to be more human and humane.
      In 2023 we should be more humane.
      In the 1980s the disease was so freaking new you know.

    • @jamesbedukodjograham5508
      @jamesbedukodjograham5508 Рік тому +1

      @@jasonfoley6502 So The needles allowed the Virus to spread out in our towns and Cities .

  • @JoeKlunder1
    @JoeKlunder1 7 місяців тому +7

    These journalists did a top-notch job.

  • @fritzdeuces
    @fritzdeuces 10 місяців тому +12

    AIDS was so scary back then. The kind of fear I had for death.

    • @weskitten
      @weskitten 5 місяців тому

      What did you do?

    • @StevenMacQuarrie
      @StevenMacQuarrie Місяць тому +1

      Ruined lives, including those living in fear.

  • @anthonydavid5121
    @anthonydavid5121 2 роки тому +51

    I was there, late 80s/early 90s working on the AIDS Unit at Mount Zion on Divisidaro, with nurses Sabrina, Calvin, Ken, Kevin, Dan, Preston, Brenda, Mary-Kay and physicians Boly, Cafarro, Poscher, Lalazarri. My God, it was 30 years ago!

    • @ezekiel5687
      @ezekiel5687 Рік тому +12

      I am only 28 but I want to thank all of you who worked and volunteered for us. I have tears in my eyes. From my soul to you and all the names, I sincerely thank you all for the work that many people wouldn't do. I also thank all the gays who opened doors for my generation before and after. From Stonewall and everything, kicking ass for freedom I'm sure was hard. To every soul in Heaven who passed from Aids or HIV , I just think in my head "what a fight, they had so much strength." Bless you all ☀️🏳️‍🌈💐

    • @Shade89240
      @Shade89240 3 місяці тому +1

      Mount zion and homosexuality should not be on the same sentence or paragraph.

  • @wovenriddles5642
    @wovenriddles5642 Рік тому +44

    All the hate mail…I seriously wonder if any of these people ever regretted their ignorance.

  • @lochdedy8674
    @lochdedy8674 2 роки тому +49

    Sadly, the news now makes a crisis worse rather than solving the problem.

    • @lupoopul4039
      @lupoopul4039 Рік тому

      That's what its always done. These clips are HEAVILY cherry picked, most news at the time used fear mongering and shamed aids victims for not being careful enough.
      So yeah, not much has changed.

  • @alexsch509
    @alexsch509 2 роки тому +20

    FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD: thank you!!!!

  • @galegrazutis964
    @galegrazutis964 2 роки тому +60

    I feel sorry for the people that contracted it through no fault of their own!

    • @AshGreen359
      @AshGreen359 2 роки тому +38

      That would be all of them

    • @galegrazutis964
      @galegrazutis964 2 роки тому +2

      @@AshGreen359NO , JUNKIES and the ones who got it buy having sex with any one any where got it purely because of their filthy life style choices!

    • @suzanneforgione1018
      @suzanneforgione1018 2 роки тому +31

      That’s all of them. No one knew at the time it was out there.

    • @Ktaurus26
      @Ktaurus26 Рік тому

      @@suzanneforgione1018 nonsense. The so called “patient zero “ knew he was sick and still slept with thousands of men. Other gays didn’t care and refused to stop going to bathhouses.

    • @jeffreyb8770
      @jeffreyb8770 Рік тому

      The black plague in medieval Europe was the same way: A perfectly healthy person could suddenly fall ill and be dead within 24 hours! Until they learned fleas on rats were spreading the disease.

  • @jasonports8517
    @jasonports8517 2 роки тому +65

    You guys still get hate I see, but seriously you guys are heroes

    • @ezekiel5687
      @ezekiel5687 Рік тому +8

      I'm young but I give my respect to all the ones before me. The Stonewall Riot was amazing with big names. Without them, and the strong men when helped the AIDS era, we wouldn't have came this far. I'm 28, but to the spirits and souls that came before my generation, so much compassion and love to all of them. From Harvey to Marsha P Johnson in the Stonewall movement. We didn't back down and never will. Also, thanks to the heterosexual men and women who have stood by our side supporting. Not because it's cool but because of true care and love. We appreciate it. We all are human. Gay, straight, Jew or muslim. I dream of a beautiful world.

    • @mischiefmakerstudios9900
      @mischiefmakerstudios9900 3 місяці тому

      @@ezekiel5687You really should check out The Ryan White story then. He brought home aids in ways people had not seen before. He contracted it through a tainted needle. Then due to that he was kicked out of his school, but he sued & won! However he decided to move when a bullet was fired into his home. He found a new town, a new school that had a crash coarse on aids before he came there. Plus, celebrities also met Ryan White showing the world it was okay to be friends with somebody who had aids. He was 13 when he was diagnosed & sad to say only 18 or 19 when he passed from aids. I never knew anybody who had aids, but I learned aids through him because he was a kid close to my age at the time. I wish every school had his book in class.

  • @folasayosalami4132
    @folasayosalami4132 3 місяці тому +5

    Of course there’s so many ignorant people in the comment section. 😒

  • @hayabusa27
    @hayabusa27 2 роки тому +55

    Back when everyone was sticking their stuff into anything

    • @jackskellington9195
      @jackskellington9195 2 роки тому +10

      How fun it was till then !!
      I think I remember you !!!

    • @jackskellington9195
      @jackskellington9195 2 роки тому +9

      @Deep Thoughts
      Butt now with condoms
      And medication’s nobody has to die

    • @wishuonmyjourney818
      @wishuonmyjourney818 Рік тому

      ​@@jackskellington9195 the lie
      there are stronger sti's eache year and forever will be stronger then hiv even

    • @wishuonmyjourney818
      @wishuonmyjourney818 Рік тому

      ​@@jackskellington9195 condoms don't do anythong just contrasrptive
      some stis go by spit by skin ....
      only solution to stay away from sex and all these sick deviences
      and am hiv postive and gay.

    • @INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES
      @INDREAMSBEGINSRESPONSIBILITIES Рік тому +13

      People are still doing it.

  • @AleenaWaseem786
    @AleenaWaseem786 7 днів тому

    Who is the male anchor after Dan rather who says "the disease known as AIDS" ?
    Can anyone tell his name please.....

  • @Angel-xd9lt
    @Angel-xd9lt 4 місяці тому +4

    When did AIDS first start and it was a horrible disease and people didn't know about it then and people were hiding in the closet during that time and afraid of what people would think and do to them. I saw the movie A Normal Heart and I do say that movie shed light on the events on what was happening which was behind closed doors so many people were affected by AIDS and people were suddenly dying and AIDS also affected Ryan White and he died and he couldn't go to school b/c AIDS and people in his home town were afraid of Ryan and they called him so many names. People were even sick even back then making fun of a young boy who was dying of AIDS! Now people have a understanding of what AIDS & HIV is. I felt so bad for the people who were dying and had no help and nobody listen to them. A Normal Heart explains alot I advise you all should see this movie! Matt Bomer is in it and it has a great cast***

    • @LuciaBrun
      @LuciaBrun 2 місяці тому

      Excelente y brutal película

  • @sunshineglow9446
    @sunshineglow9446 Місяць тому

    Imagine how many medical staff got Needle stick injury 😲

  • @_letstartariot
    @_letstartariot 13 днів тому +1

    All who judge this as the wrath of God, please go read your own bible. Pride is a sin. On top of that, you are not meant to judge, that is God’s job. You’re an arrogant hypocrite if you not only think, but then mash your fingers on your keyboard telling anyone who will listen that AIDS is the wrath of God. How arrogant of you to assume you know what God does or doesn’t do.

  • @TheeHuntress
    @TheeHuntress 10 місяців тому

    ❤ Wait a minute. How am I not subscribed?? Probably am on my other account. Consider it done on this one as well. I am loving the content ✊🏽

  • @OncronOplika
    @OncronOplika Місяць тому

    every white blonde with glasses is jeffrey dahmer

  • @davidstrohl
    @davidstrohl Рік тому +8

    Maybe in SF but it didn’t where I lived.

  • @alishatoleu4062
    @alishatoleu4062 10 місяців тому +4

    It was before the 70’s through transfusions, look up Robert ray and his family earlier

    • @mickeydogtubemickeydogtube6856
      @mickeydogtubemickeydogtube6856 10 місяців тому +5

      In the summer of 1979 I was living in Southern California. I read a little blurb of an article either in the LA Times or a local gay publication about 3 gay men in San Francisco who had a rare disease called Karposi Sarcoma. The article just noted the rarity of three people getting the disease in the same timeframe. Never though much about it at the the time but they would be the first cases of what became known as GRID then AIDS. In the early 2000s I was speaking with a cousin of a friend of mine. She worked in epidemiology for the city of San Francisco's health department in the early 1980s. She told us all the first cases of AIDS, the patients had participated in the hepatitis vaccine trials of the mid to late 70s. That's very rarely spoken.

    • @11dsw
      @11dsw 3 місяці тому

      @@mickeydogtubemickeydogtube6856...the hepatitis thing is a conspiracy theory...

  • @BleakVision
    @BleakVision Рік тому +13

    They responded so effectively, they didn‘t even need to close the bathouses…

    • @dcxxxx
      @dcxxxx Рік тому +2

      Huh?

    • @Randy218_
      @Randy218_ 11 місяців тому +7

      You do realize that is where most infections occured, right?

    • @weskitten
      @weskitten 5 місяців тому

      @@Randy218_ Two Rs in occurred.

  • @calzabbath
    @calzabbath 5 днів тому

    Poor people

  • @jelilibarakat3173
    @jelilibarakat3173 7 місяців тому +1

    You have been much more to me than just a doctor. You have been my therapist,supporter, friend,well wishers and angel in disguise.Thank you so much Dr emuakhe for all you've done for me,you totally restored back my health.................

  • @CarlosGonzalez-km9xr
    @CarlosGonzalez-km9xr 2 місяці тому +2

    Gross

  • @italianstallion9170
    @italianstallion9170 Рік тому +8

    Remember it well, felt sorry for the homosexual community, that said, they should have been safer and used protection when they were told to not spread it in the early 80s.

    • @somexp12
      @somexp12 Рік тому +7

      The idea of using "protection" to avoid transmitting STDs was largely a reaction to the AIDS outbreak. Condoms were mostly used to avoid childbirth, and their use was becoming increasingly rare with the introduction of the pill. It was largely some gay guys who came up with the idea of "safe sex" as used for this purpose. Gay organizations were promoting the practice, but, being gay organizations, they were met with obstacles as they went about trying to educate people. For example, the GMHC was denied office space by every landlord they approached, "safe sex" educational material was censored in public places, and congress made a law that forbade public funds going towards any educational campaign that could be interpreted as so much as tacitly condoning same-sex relationships. "Safe-sex" campaigns, by acknowledging the existence of same-sex couples yet failing to condemn them, fell into the category of "condoning."
      It wasn't as if everyone else knew about using protection but gay people just felt that wasn't enough fun. It was up to gay people and their supporters to come up with a solution that didn't involve repenting, putting on the hair shirt, and renouncing their past life.

  • @Zakd-pu1lg
    @Zakd-pu1lg 26 днів тому

    3:12 how NOT to use the condom.

  • @Ktaurus26
    @Ktaurus26 Рік тому +45

    It’s a shame the gay community at the time ignored health and science because they cared more about sexual “liberation”

    • @manbtm1
      @manbtm1 Рік тому

      Yes that just kind of like the COVID-19 virus and all of the deniers of their same mentality and that included a very larger portion of straight people

    • @ads998
      @ads998 Рік тому

      Yes, just like the antivaxxers and anti-maskers who died in significantly higher numbers than anyone during the AIDS epidemic because they cared more about their "rights" and "civil liberties"...

    • @dawnc.3711
      @dawnc.3711 11 місяців тому +4

      Yep

    • @TomLloyd-18
      @TomLloyd-18 11 місяців тому +3

      unfortunate timing!

    • @rainforme1850
      @rainforme1850 10 місяців тому +5

      There is no way to know that

  • @victor77777771
    @victor77777771 2 роки тому +25

    1:23 Dr Fraudchi is an expert in Aids and Bathhouse.

    • @jackskellington9195
      @jackskellington9195 2 роки тому +17

      Dr Fraudchi helped all of humanity learn about this disease and should be shown respect

    • @anthonydavid5121
      @anthonydavid5121 2 роки тому

      So am I and many other people too! I dont et your point. What am I missing?

    • @bykeryduh7237
      @bykeryduh7237 Рік тому +3

      @@jackskellington9195 absolutely

    • @ClueSign
      @ClueSign Рік тому

      Smearing Anthony Fauci, a hero epidemiologist fighting for public health from the AIDs outbreak all the way through the Covid pandemic, is the new intelligence test.

    • @manbtm1
      @manbtm1 Рік тому +10

      You’re insulting one of the worlds most respected epidemiologists and proven to be so, he has gotten the world through several major health incidences with his knowledge and research. It’s amazing people so ignorant and so lacking in knowledge are first in line to criticize him, probably because their political views want to attack him for doing the right thing.

  • @deniseThompson-o9s
    @deniseThompson-o9s 8 місяців тому

    BE YOUR SELF DO Y'ALL I'LL DO ME

  • @suezom1995
    @suezom1995 Рік тому +12

    What exactly they are celebrating?

    • @modickens1272
      @modickens1272 Рік тому +9

      Clapping cheeks

    • @faithfaithmashavira5387
      @faithfaithmashavira5387 9 місяців тому +3

      Sorry No answer, they all decomposed

    • @sx8472
      @sx8472 6 місяців тому +2

      Smelling poo 💩 and too much of it will knocked you out..

  • @MaryPetrauskas-k4c
    @MaryPetrauskas-k4c 10 місяців тому

    That's nice!!

  • @TomLloyd-18
    @TomLloyd-18 11 місяців тому +3

    Of course you got hate mail . . . . praaaze jeeeeezus! Isn't that what 'religion' is all about?

  • @SeminarioMAE
    @SeminarioMAE 5 місяців тому

    lmao

  • @centillion1684
    @centillion1684 Рік тому +1

    0:06

  • @Shade89240
    @Shade89240 5 місяців тому +8

    Its a punishment from God..

  • @dorenerussell2668
    @dorenerussell2668 3 місяці тому +4

    Why didn’t they practice safe sex??? They could have cut the deaths way down.

    • @wanderlustendumado5396
      @wanderlustendumado5396 3 місяці тому

      They didn't know how it was spreading away or how you contracted it. People thought for the long time it was a "gay cancer".

    • @isis3319
      @isis3319 2 місяці тому +2

      Some people were purposely spreading it (and still do). Either talking their companion out of using protection, or removing it when the other person doesn't notice. For various reasons such as resentment (e.g. "someone gave it to me, so I'll give it to as many people as possible"), malice, or just being in denial about having it and refusing to get tested

    • @anthonygreen7763
      @anthonygreen7763 2 місяці тому

      It wasn’t know how it was spread for a long time. People thought you could get it by just being in the same room as someone who had it.

    • @viking933
      @viking933 12 днів тому

      Because they were egoists, many Had sex with 3000 or more people, even when they were heavy sic they still went to bathhouses and did bareback

  • @jeffreyb8770
    @jeffreyb8770 Рік тому +6

    In 2023, the leadership in SF is doing wonders AGAIN against despair, open drug use, overdose deaths, petty crime, homelessness, and the total demoralization of first responders! At least gays can be who they truly are!

    • @ImpeccableLiving
      @ImpeccableLiving 10 місяців тому

      Why don't you go storm the Capitol again?
      Cope and seethe, Trump cultist.

  • @bose5160
    @bose5160 Рік тому +18

    Apparently being 'gay' means dancing around in revealing clothing and being sexually promiscuous. Cool story bro...

    • @toniomiklo2406
      @toniomiklo2406 Рік тому +5

      Tell me something I don't know.

    • @DionisoBaco.
      @DionisoBaco. Рік тому +1

      So what? Just gays are promiscuous, right? Straight people no
      Ohhhhh coooool!

    • @modickens1272
      @modickens1272 Рік тому +5

      And splitting cheeks

    • @imon2u
      @imon2u 8 місяців тому +6

      ​@@modickens1272you again?! You surely do love gay videos.

    • @modickens1272
      @modickens1272 8 місяців тому

      I guess we have that in common

  • @fortunatomartino8549
    @fortunatomartino8549 Рік тому +8

    I'm a raging alcoholic
    I want people to celebrate me

    • @ImpeccableLiving
      @ImpeccableLiving 10 місяців тому

      Why don't you go storm the Capitol again?
      Cope and seethe, Trump cultist.

  • @toniomiklo2406
    @toniomiklo2406 Рік тому +24

    They kept allowing gays to donate blood for fear of being called "homophobes". Some things never change do they? I pray for the innocent people who needed transfusions and paid for the sins and cowardice of others with their lives.

    • @MariahTheElusiveSongbird
      @MariahTheElusiveSongbird Рік тому +1

      The FDA banned gay men from donating blood in the early 80s before there were reliable tests for screening for HIV, and it still hasn't been lifted. Stop making !@#$ up.

    • @somexp12
      @somexp12 Рік тому +1

      They banned gay people from donating blood before they even identified the virus and that ban remained in place for the next 40 years. It remained in place even after they started testing donations for HIV, rendering such a ban redundant. It remained in place even for gay men who had a total of 2 sexual partners during their whole lives while it waved through womanizing heterosexuals with no regard for what the latter might be carrying.
      You're also an idiot if you think anyone was afraid of being called a "homophobe" back in the 80s. To the extent any blood banks so much as hesitated, it was because they explicitly targeted gay communities because they could get more out of them. Such communities had civically engaged individuals who were more willing than others to donate. Such was the case with the annual SF Pride parade, which accounted for about 5% of the city's donations.

    • @brucethedawg
      @brucethedawg 7 місяців тому +2

      how embarrassing is your statement

    • @MichelleJohnson-lc3zn
      @MichelleJohnson-lc3zn 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@brucethedawgtruth is the truth

  • @samna6641
    @samna6641 9 місяців тому +4

    What’s sad is that AIDs still exists with gay men spreading it to each other without being careful. Now they rely on Prep thinking that it will help them but what’s sad is that people don’t learn.

    • @brucethedawg
      @brucethedawg 7 місяців тому +3

      I'm embarrassed for your lack of knowledge on this.

    • @kdtennis1
      @kdtennis1 7 місяців тому +1

      Truvada / Prep is lowering transmission of the HIV Virus!

    • @weskitten
      @weskitten 5 місяців тому +1

      And with 'prep' they think they can do things with impunity, but they still contract other serious infections and STDs.

    • @nasirwest6502
      @nasirwest6502 3 місяці тому

      Shut up please ! It’s clear you haven’t done your full research

  • @justachipn3039
    @justachipn3039 2 роки тому +15

    Guys, you also made a "difference" in destroying the best President this Country ever had !!! You opened the door 😜👍

    • @unapologeticallyBlack414
      @unapologeticallyBlack414 Рік тому

      You mean the worst. The best president in this country was Barack Obama.

    • @glenncordova4027
      @glenncordova4027 Рік тому +5

      They destroyed Abraham Lincoln?

    • @reaganrwaka8827
      @reaganrwaka8827 11 місяців тому +1

      Is it Ronald Reagan

    • @rainforme1850
      @rainforme1850 10 місяців тому

      Who was the best president? do you mean the guy pretending to be the president who was actually an actor? How could he be the best when he chose to not even talk about the disease five years after the first outbreak you should’ve taken the equation out of K and concentrated on how sick people were getting instead, you let it go right into the main stream

  • @wrsawy
    @wrsawy Рік тому +6

    Fauci...... grrr

    • @vivalarazausarmyvet4453
      @vivalarazausarmyvet4453 11 місяців тому +3

      Crazy to know that Dr. Fauci's been America's hero for so many decades.

  • @Shade89240
    @Shade89240 5 місяців тому +4

    Adam and eve not adam and steve..

  • @richardzelmer8117
    @richardzelmer8117 Рік тому +3

    All my friends are dead I wish I was

  • @GAURON123
    @GAURON123 7 місяців тому

    Classic RGB+ moments

  • @missjanemarple1614
    @missjanemarple1614 10 місяців тому

    its so stupid,we don t like that