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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by duckfang on Sunday March 28, 2021 @04:56PM (#26614476)
As a bisexual male, I think a good part of disdain about connecting HIV and gay goes to the older naming of the disease: GRID. gay-related immune deficiency

It also dates me, but I had a blood transfusion in 1982. At that time, it was a Russian Roulette if I ended up with HIV blood or not. I didn't. Had I been innfected, I would have ended up like Ryan White.

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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by randallsquared on Sunday March 28, 2021 @05:22PM (#26614741)
Even knowing the term GRID dates you. :) Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS#1981%E2%80... , the "GRID" moniker was only used for under two years, forty years ago. I think it's unlikely that the name is to blame.
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Re:Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up by benatkin on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:47PM (#26627961)
I was born in 1982 and I knew about it.

I don't think it's unlikely. It was early in the chain of events, so even if it was six months it could have had a big impact.

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