Ryan White

GOP gubernatorial candidate Karen Testerman's Reagan-era attitude toward gays and lesbians has me nostalgic.

Turns out I'm almost the same age as Ryan White. Remember him?

In the early 1980s, AIDS was known as gay-related immune deficiency, because the disease had first been identified among primarily homosexual communities in New York City and San Francisco. At the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, the disease was thought to be a "homosexual problem" and was Source: Blue Hampshire RSS Feed