Imagine how farther along we'd be on HIV treatment if we hadn't had someone in the White House who decided HIV was a 'gay people disease' and just shrugged.

Every time I hear someone praise Reagan all I can think about is how sat on his hands and did nothing while a hundred thousand Americans died - 30,000 in the last year of his presidency alone - because of bigotry on the part of him and the Christian Right, who are still to this day screaming that LGBTQ people shouldn't have the same rights as everyone else.