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AP News Radio
New US aid package for Ukraine will total about $300 million and include munitions for drones
"A new U.S. aid package for Ukraine will likely include munitions for drones. I'm Lisa dwyer. A U.S. Military aid package where you crane that is expected to be announced this week will total up to $300 million and will include additional munitions for drones. The drone decision comes after new attacks by unmanned aircraft targeted Moscow. There has been no suggestion that U.S. made drones or munitions were used in the recent attacks and U.S. officials have repeatedly said that Ukraine has agreed not to use any American provided weapons for attacks on Russian soil. U.S. officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because the latest aid package has not yet been publicly announced. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Crucial days ahead as debt ceiling deal goes for vote and Biden calls lawmakers for support
"There are crucial days ahead as The White House and congressional leaders work to pass a compromise package in time to lift the nation's borrowing limit and prevent a U.S. default. A key test will come this afternoon when the House rules committee is scheduled to consider the debt limit package and vote on sending it to the full House, officials say the U.S. risks default as soon as June 5th, President Biden says he feels good about the deal negotiated with House speaker Kevin McCarthy and has been calling lawmakers ahead of this week's votes in Congress. There are still concerns about the deal's passage with some hard right conservatives criticizing the lack of deep spending cuts they wanted, and liberals denouncing policy changes like new work requirements for older Americans in the food aid program, the full House is expected to vote on Wednesday. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
Debt ceiling takeaways: Biden's invite to liberal skeptics to 'talk to me,' McCarthy's balancing act
"Congress is back and topping the agenda is a debt ceiling deal. No one claims to really like. I'm Ben Thomas with a closer look. Democrats who have reservations about this compromise bill. Talk to me. President Biden acknowledges not all Democrats, particularly those on the left, may vote for the package, Congress is taking up. But I spoke to a whole bunch of people and it feels good. We'll see when the votes start. His debt ceiling deal with House speaker Kevin McCarthy runs 99 pages, both can point to provisions they can call victories, funding medical care for veterans and changing work requirements for government aid and streamlining environmental reviews for energy projects. But each side has a job to do to win over enough lawmakers in their parties to pass it. Some conservatives are concerned the deal doesn't cut future deficits enough. Meanwhile, Democrats have been worried about those changes to programs like food stamps. Ben Thomas, Washington
Mark Levin
Fox News: Michelle Obama's Juice Brand Fails Her Own Health Standards
"And so I'm looking here from Fox News former First Lady Michelle Obama's touted health drink pleasing What does that mean Plessy Oh what do I know What fail the health standards set by the Obama administration to do Bloomberg report found After discussing with 12 independent health professionals and organizations the Bloomberg news organization found that pleasing current flavors released earlier this month would not meet the requirements to be served at elementary middle school Uh oh But do they make money That's the issue These Marxist revolutionaries need to know if they're going to make money off the drinks Please it's not like Kool-Aid you know Remember Jim Jones mister producer drink the Kool-Aid Drink the plessy Under the Obama era school meal regulations currently under review U.S. elementary middle schools may only serve water milk or a 100% fruit or vegetable juice with no added sweeteners And the regulations do permit schools to dilute juices with water and none of pleasing four current flavors meet these criteria According to the experts there are was concern over the non nutritive I feel like I'm being treated other way Non nutritive sweeteners in the drink such as stevia leaf and monk fruit extracts They could still be considered unhealthy The World Health Organization previously published its own report on Monday advising against the use of sweeteners like stevia to control body weight
AP News Radio
South African president appoints judge to oversee weapons-for-Russia inquiry
"The South African president Cyril ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations the country supplied arms to Russia. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa claims weapons and ammunition were loaded onto a Russian flagged cargo ship that secretly docked at a naval base near Cape Town in December last year, ambassador Ruben brickett indicated that the allegations were based on U.S. intelligence and that he would bet his life on the accuracy of his claim. The container carrying ship named lady R is already under U.S. sanctions for being tied to a company that has transported weapons to aid the Russian war effort in Ukraine, South Africa has denied there was any government sanctioned deal to provide weapons to Russia, although it hasn't categorically ruled out that an unofficial transaction took place involving another entity. The South African president's office says the panel has 6 weeks to complete its investigations and another two weeks from then to provide a report to ramaphosa. I am Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
UN agencies warn of starvation risk in Sudan, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali, call for urgent aid
"Two UN agencies have warned of rising food emergencies, including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war, Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali are said to be facing or already suffering from the same emergencies due to the restricted movement of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen at the highest alert levels. They say communities are already facing or are projected to face starvation with the risk of sliding towards catastrophic conditions, the report by the World Food Program and the food and agriculture organization calls for urgent attention to save both lives and jobs. It warns that 1 million people are expected to flee Sudan while an additional 2.5 million inside the country face acute hunger in the coming months with supply routes through port Sudan disrupted by safety issues beyond the 9 countries at the highest alert level, the agencies said 22 countries are identified as hotspots risking acute food insecurity. I'm Lawrence Brooks
AP News Radio
Biden: Debt deal 'very close' even as two sides far apart on work requirements for food aid
"President Biden continues to say a deal on the debt limit is very close. House negotiators left the capitol in the early hours of Saturday without a debt limit deal with The White House. They're expected to return later in the day in hopes of reaching an agreement over the holiday weekend. It appears as though work requirements for federal food aid recipients have emerged as a final sticking point as president Joe Biden says he thinks a deal is very close. In the meantime treasury secretary Janet Yellen says, the deadline for a potentially catastrophic default has been pushed to June 5th from an earlier estimate of June 1st. I'm surely Adler
AP News Radio
Austin hopes F-16 fight jet training for Ukrainian pilots will begin in coming weeks
"Defense secretary Lloyd Austin says he hopes Ukrainian pilots will soon start training on American made fighter jets. Speaking virtually to global defense leaders about ongoing military aid for Ukraine, Austin says the aim is to start the F-16 training in coming weeks. This will further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian air force in the long term. But not necessarily help Ukraine's anticipated counter offensive against Russia. The defense officials are expected to get an update from Ukrainian leaders about preparations for the fight. Austin says they'll also have to look for creative ways to boost production of more key systems for Kyiv. We're going to have to dig deeper. Washington.
AP News Radio
Russia's Wagner boss says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle
"The fact that militia, which is aiding Russia wage war on Ukraine. Says thousands have lost their lives. Wagner's chief says his false has lost more than 20,000 soldiers in the drawn out battle for bakhmut, with about 20% of the 50,000 Russian convicts he recruited to fight in the 15 month war dying in the eastern Ukrainian city. The figures in stark contrast with claims for Moscow for its lost just over 6000 troops in the war. It's also higher than the official estimate of the Soviet losses in the Afghanistan war of 15,000 troops between 1979 and 1989, the Ukrainian general staff says that heavy fighting is continuing in days after Russia said it's completely captured the devastated city. I'm Charles De Ledesma
The Breakdown
Biden Defaulting on the Debt to Own the Crypto Bros?
"Well Friends the president has gone and again made the debt ceiling political for the crypto crowd. And so today we are diverting temporarily from our normal Bitcoin and crypto industry coverage to move into the most significant market issue right now, which is the debt ceiling debate. This will serve as a bit of a primer. I will avoid the temptation to get political with it, as always, and we'll just try to understand exactly where we are going into this critical week. Right now, the debt ceiling is currently at nearly $31.4 trillion, with around 24.6 trillion held as bonds by investors, private institutions, and other market actors. The U.S. debt is the largest of any nation state, exceeding the amount currently outstanding for the next four countries combined. In mid January, the limit of borrowing was reached, leading the US Treasury to begin what's known as extraordinary measures to stretch the remaining cash a little further. These measures trim budget expenditure around the edges by deferring time and sensitive spending, such as making contributions into government worker savings plans, and topping up the assets held in the exchange stabilization fund. Earlier this month, treasury secretary Janet Yellen announced that despite these measures, the treasury looked set to run out of cash by the beginning of next month, leaving officials precious little time to sort out a deal. The negotiations had been ongoing for the better part of the last few weeks, although heading into the weekend the tone had soured. Earlier last week, both President Biden and House Republican speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is heading up negotiations for the GOP, expressed optimism that a deal could be close. And yet as the weekend rolled around, no deal was there to be had. Now part of the reason is that the two parties are very far apart in terms of what they want. The GOP are asking for significant budget cuts. In particular, they're looking for cuts across social spending by ramping up work requirements for government aid, as well as kneecapping flagship democratic policies like clean energy incentives with the inflation reduction act, and additional funding for the IRS. Last month, Republicans passed a House bill which would suspend the debt ceiling until March of next year, but the bill contains such deep spending cuts that it was viewed as a nonstarter for Senate Democrats to consider.
AP News Radio
Ukraine secured military aid, including advanced fighter jets, at the G-7 summit
"President Joe Biden announced a new military aid package worth $375 million for Ukraine during his meeting with Ukraine's president at the G 7 summit in Japan. President Biden unveiled the aid package at a meeting with Ukrainian president, Vladimir zelensky, in Hiroshima. Includes more ammunition, artillery, armored vehicles, to bolster Ukraine's battle abilities. Zelensky's response to the package. My appreciations. We never forget. Biden's fresh pledge came after the U.S. agreed to allow training on American made F-16 fighter jets. The training lays the groundwork for their eventual transfer to Ukraine,
AP News Radio
Supreme Court avoids ruling on law shielding internet companies from being sued for what users post
"The Supreme Court has sided with three Internet giants in lawsuits looking to hold them liable for terror attacks. The high court avoided the big issue hovering over the cases by not ruling on the federal law shielding Internet companies for being sued for what users post, but the justices did unanimously reject a suit alleging Google Twitter and Facebook allowed their platforms to be used in aiding abetting a Turkish nightclub attack that killed 39 people 6 years ago. The high court returned the case of an American college student killed in a Paris terror attack to a lower court. Families of victims in both attacks and the companies did not do enough to keep extremist groups from using the platforms to radicalize and recruit people, Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Democrats keep Pennsylvania House majority, positioning party to prevent limits on abortion rights
"Democrats keep their narrow Pennsylvania House majority, positioning the party to prevent limits on abortion rights. I'm Julie Walker, Democrat Heather Boyd, won a special election Tuesday in the Philadelphia suburbs, beating Republican Katie Ford, the victory means first term democratic governor Josh Shapiro will have at least one chamber to aid his agenda and could also affect a proposed constitutional amendment limiting abortion rights that legislative Republicans are one house floor boat away from putting before voters as a referendum. In a second House special election,
AP News Radio
Biden scraps planned visit to Australia, Papua New Guinea to focus on debt limit talks
"President Biden is underlining the urgency of debt limit talks by scrapping part of an overseas trip that starts today. Papa and New Guinea will have to wait longer for aids first visit from a sitting U.S. president. I'm cutting my trip short. Canceling stops in the island nation and then Australia, a foreign policy set back for an administration that's put a premium on outreach to the Pacific region. Japan remains the president's first stand now only stop. He'll attend the G 7 summit before returning here Sunday for what he hopes are final talks with lawmakers over raising the debt ceiling. Washington.
AP News Radio
Debt ceiling showdown: Biden and congressional leaders to meet as McCarthy pushes for faster deal
"The president slated to meet with congressional leaders at The White House this afternoon to discuss the looming debt ceiling. It's a high profile Oval Office meeting but expectations are low for a deal today to get the votes to raise the $31 trillion debt ceiling and keep the U.S. from running out of cash to keep paying the nation's bills. Speaker Kevin McCarthy. You've got to have something done by this weekend and we are nowhere near any of that. Those familiar with closed door negotiations say various areas of possible agreement include taking back untapped COVID-19 money, imposing future budget caps, permitting reforms that would ease energy development and bolstering work requirements for government aid recipients that something Biden has said he'd be open to. For Medicaid, it's a different story. President Biden was hopeful about the negotiations, the session comes as the president prepares to depart for the group of 7 summit in Japan, where U.S. leadership will be on the world stage. Jennifer King, Washington
AP News Radio
Vending machines are the latest tool for fighting opioid overdoses
"Vending machines are becoming the latest tool for fighting opioid overdoses. I'm Lisa dwyer. Vending machines that have long been stocked with snacks are getting repurposed to distribute lifesaving supplies to fight the opioid epidemic, a growing number of cities and local governments are using vending machines to distribute the overdose reversing drug naloxone. The machines are often set up at libraries post offices and other public buildings. They dispense naloxone and other items for free, including first aid kits. Interest in the approach is expected to grow after U.S. regulators recently approved Narcan the leading naloxone brand to be sold without a prescription. That switch allows the nasal spray to be stalked and convenient stores supermarkets and vending machines. I'm Lisa dwyer
AP News Radio
Zelenskyy visits UK on European tour seeking military aid
"President volodymyr zelensky is visiting the UK on a European tour seeking military aid. Zelensky is in Britain as the staunch ally of Ukraine prepares to give more military aid in an effort to change the course of the war with Russia. It is the fourth European country zelensky has visited in the past few days. He made an unannounced visit to Paris on Sunday evening to meet president Emmanuel Macron after earlier trips to Germany and Italy, meeting those countries leaders as well as Pope Francis, a message posted on Monday on zelensky's official telegram channel, says he would meet my friend Rishi for talks. Office confirmed the two leaders would meet at chequers, the prime minister's country retreat outside London, Charles De Ledesma, London
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Montage: Media's Reaction to Trump's Town Hall Event
"Here is a Montage that Fox News put together, showing media reaction to this week's town hall with president Trump. I just don't really understand why they didn't just cut him off. What I didn't know was that the audience would be filled with his cult. I would like to know if CNN was passing out Kool-Aid before the event started. I think it was a profoundly irresponsible decision. There is no sense, in fact, checking or replaying the highlights. I'm sure you're gonna have more fact checks for us because there were more lies than I could count. I think we needed a Chiron. This is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie. This is a lie. Now, of course, people on the right loved it. And my friend Mark Davis has a pretty good analysis of this. If you hate Trump, you hated the town hall. You can't believe CNN did it. It's awful, awful awful. If you love Trump, you thought it was a great night for Trump and you were happy that the things turned out the way they did.
UN News
"aids" Discussed on UN News
"In the past, there were not enough presentations like syrups or dissolvable that serve to treat children. Nowadays, they are available. And part of our call with this report is to make certain that this inequality is erased that children have more access to retrovirals. At present, children represent about 4% of the new infections, but they represent 15% of the 8 steps because of lack of access to treatment. You had just mentioned that UNAIDS has a new report about this. What are some of the important issues that the report highlights? The report is called dangerous inequalities. It builds up on our midyear, our summer global report that we called in danger. And in dengue brings back the attention of the world and particularly of world leaders that aids is not over. I was mentioning to you of line how when I have met with war leaders, sometimes I hear them say, oh, is it still a problem? I thought that this was already taken care of. And I tell them no. It's still out there. And I compare some times with what happened in the 80s with tuberculosis and with malaria. We realized at the time, or at least the thinking was, oh, tuberculosis is weighing down. It's under control, malaria as well, and what happens 40 years later. We end up with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, spreading throughout the world. And we have malaria resistant as well. So we don't want this to happen with HIV and our report makes this call for action. And the motor we are using is equalize, making sure that we push for human rights, which we push for access to medicines. We push for decriminalization, particularly of key populations. And the call to action is for the government it is for all I would say because even in the community, there are still some misconceptions in grain. There may be a steel people who saw friends or relatives die back in the 80s. And that is not happening now. It's something that happened in the past. But we also need to make awareness in the general population that HIV is out there. And that people's rights needs to be taken into consideration. Stigma and discrimination, unfortunately, it's still around. And for world leaders, I know that the present situation in the economy, inflation has made countries take drastic steps in terms of their fiscal space. But making sure that the resources are made available for health is very important and making sure that resources are being made available for HIV response is key and it's essential. We believe that by dealing with inequalities, it's going to be a mayor step towards a sustained response. Is there anything else you might like to add? I believe I would like to emphasize that aids can be over by 2030 as the 2030 agenda calls for. I would like to say how proud we are of our global late strategy. And this is a collective owned by all member states, and the political declaration that was adopted last year lays the foundation for countries to respond in the most appropriate way, targeting the populations that need to be targeted and providing the response that is needed. So my message would be let's move forward. Let's take on those commitments and let's end dates by 2030.
Extinction of Dinosaurs on the earth
"aids" Discussed on Extinction of Dinosaurs on the earth
"They soon on these conditions. This deadly virus has been engulfing the human race by making a compact standing the human body proliferating all over the body ruining it. Many countries in the world have made regulations in their countries to enjoy sex through free sex red light areas et cetera. The entire world has become prey in the hands of this death. Defying disease making human beings into ashes. A blazing fire now. The world is indulged. In having sex between two men and two women a man and woman men and an animal costing their lives for the sake of short-term glee man enticed with his bundle of needs is not satisfied until he looks for a new paradise in this hazardous and hectic journey man has become more whimsical and haughty in his nature resulting in great clamour all commotion which is now the most modern situation in the world man is tussling with this dreadful epidemic from years ago but his still in vain in this uncertain situation let us hear the verdict of the bible regarding the origin source and birth of aids god. His loved his children from the beginning. He wanted them to abide by his orders. All commandments. nothing. Other than the bible god with his foresight saw the future and the human nature and commanded with fewer regulations that could provide him a state of tranquility hundreds and thousands of years ago. He made some regulations which binds every man. It is good for a man not to marry but since there is so much immorality each man should have his own wife not wives and each woman her own husband not husband. The wife spotty does not belong to her alone but also taught her husband in the same way. The husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife. First corinthians chapter seven verses one to four our world is a superb work made by gaunt which fulfills the needs of millions of people who are inheriting it. God created everything that man needs. He created plenty of food to meet man's hunger oceans to quench his thirst women and men for their desire of variety of tastes colors fragrances. And many more. God ordered man to accomplish all his desires. Rationally and legitimately this doesn't mean that if a man is hungry he should live on human flesh. If thirsty to take intoxicants and vicious liquors feels like having sex to mate with plenty of women other than his wife. Man was made wise of them beasts not to behave like them but to have dominance over them and to set proper his ways. Our god is so mindful of the relationship between husband and wife. He wants to exclude himself between them when they are in need of each other do not deprive one another except with consent for time that she may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again so that satan does not tempt to because of your lack of self control. First corinthians chapter seven verse five. God has given paramount priority towards this relationship because he treats it honorable and the bed. I'm defiled hebrews. Thirteen to four. When god has made marriage sacred nowadays has been treated as a partnership agreement for a certain period and can be broken at any time leading many contacts between various men and women all over.
Making Gay History
"aids" Discussed on Making Gay History
"On our second afternoon. Just back from a swim in the marine water. Santeuil bay berry yells for me from the bathroom. He turns from the mirror and says look he sticks out his tongue. We always joked. About what a big tongue had. But that's not what he was asking me to look at. Berries tongue is coated with a whitish film. Especially in the back. Maybe it's nothing i say. But my attempted reassurance evaporates. When i burst into tears we knew that thrush a kind of mouth. Fungus was an early symptom of as. We've both read the alarming studies suggesting that aids could have a long incubation period. Not just months but years and in october nineteen eighty-four. The new york times had reported new scientific evidence that suggested aids might be transmissible through saliva. Barron i curl up together on the bed. Hold each other and saab if you could contract aids through saliva. Could you get infected from tears. The daft we get home. I sit nervously flipping through people magazine in the waiting room while berry his in with the doctor the doctor asks barrier to stick out his tongue takes a close look walks over the mirror in the examination room and sticks out his own tongue he turns to berry and says yep. That's what it looks like berry tells me the story on the way home and we wind up standing on a street corner laughing. It wasn't funny but you had to laugh mostly from relief but also over our hyper-vigilance gone wrong that study about saliva an aids wouldn't be debunked for another
Making Gay History
"aids" Discussed on Making Gay History
"My first time at circus. April thirtieth nineteen eighty three madison square garden. I'm twenty four years old. And i am not a date berry is not my date yet. We haven't fallen in love yet. But we are at the circus together. We're the very first big aids fundraiser. In new york a few early supporters of the gay men's health crisis got together and bought out a performance of the barnum and bailey circus. The greatest show on earth wasn't prepared to officially host an event for his cause. But gmc got around that by reselling the seventeen thousand six hundred seats to raise money and tackle the growing crisis ernest. See of gay men when the ringmaster introduces broadway star patti. Lupone lose it. After meeting speech from patty leonard bernstein walks across the floor of the arena to conduct the orchestra of the star spangled banner mezzo-soprano shirley varez voice feels. The garden joined by thousands of voices in the audience. Patriotism clowns and aids seems improbable now but felt so right in the moment.
This is Why
"aids" Discussed on This is Why
"Equals you so when you talk about people who are on medication and continued. Medication can achieve Undetectable viral loads cannot transmit drive anymore. So that is the biggest tool in our toolbox for hiv prevention. Going forward but it also reduces stigma for those living. Hey tried to. Which i think the biggest handicap to people living with. Hiv is a stigma associated with it. One thing that jumped out at me on your website is the fact that according to the public health agency candidate saw a fourth consecutive year of increases in hiv cases. As you said it sounds like. There's a real lack of preventative education. If i could if i if i could take a couple of different sides first of all first of all with the new funding structure that came out in two thousand sixteen. We saw twenty five percent increase from two thousand eighteen. We are the g. seven country. That's lagging the worst for hiv around the world. No g seven summit at the moment but we for hiv where the country that's lagging the most energy seven with the most uptake in hiv cases. Last year it was a little decrease but nobody can access testing because of cova. We're in we're in a really dangerous spot. It's not only hatred. It's all all other sexually transmitted diseases. Also so when you put the two together plus stagnant funding which has not been increased but our responsibilities at a community level have been increased to include other sexually transmitted diseases and covid nineteen. We can't continue doing so much so little financial capacity it doesn't make sense and the government is on a slippery slope and do you know like we can't just do prevention. We have to do a multipronged approach. Well we have news for prevention. Hey trevy self testing kits. Now we have point of care testing but they have to be leveraged better than what they're being done at the moment. The federal government recently announced hundreds of millions of dollars to expand vaccine manufacturing toronto. Does that give you hope for an hiv vaccine. How is that work going well. We'd have to certain researchers that are going on that even older mcmaster university in toronto. I believe that's where it's coming from. London anyways one or the other but there is some pass for for vaccine or cure for hiv. Are we going to get there in my life flow lifetime. I don't think so The the the thing is that. Hey try be a very changing and just like any other. Like gonorrhea now is in certain cases untreatable because it more so much so we don't know exactly where we're gonna land with it. But i mean the the the way to get to move forward is to get a national farmer care one payer system in place so that everybody across turtle island across can have fair and equitable access to hiv meds including prep with the exposure to ensure that you don't contract hiv if you have if you have the chances of contracting hiv and Being it being it readily available to everybody at almost no cost or no cost. I can be see really does bring the numbers down. Plus you equals you plus Getting people tested at least once a year for everything and getting sexually is getting tested for your sexual health should be a yearly commitment. You have with your doctor and it should be openly discussed so that you do know your status because knowing your status and powers to take control of your sexual behavior in a better and more efficient way i mean it's common sense but i i think getting that national pharma care. They're also the generics. Do help for those that have to pay their meds. Because brings the prepped down to a manageable cost laid. It sounds like anywhere. There's an equities Hiv aids like cove nineteen is finding a way to really attack an exploit those those inequities as weaknesses. It does it does but we have to. We have to Look at the rhetoric a bit more nuanced set a bit more people who use drugs overall and canada account for about seventeen percent of new infections. So it's not the majority insisted it depends if you're in shebek. Half of the cases are admendment. Have sex with men. Okay so it's gb msm as we call them right When you go to schedule. They have the highest race of hatred in canada and they're mostly indigenous so yeah there's so there's that nuance and then when you get to be see. It's another thing and so each province is different but that leads us to new problem that we have in canada's that data captures not done correctly so we only have the provenance of sixty percent of the data. While so we're establishing priorities for non flow of eighty million dollars. Spending that has an increase in over a decade and on data. That's not true. So it's estimated data so it doesn't so it's it's like nonsensical this whole thing exists and that we don't have stop gaps to address these issues because like when we talk about residential schools and truth and reconciliation move at all the last five six years and it's the same thing with the. Hey try you know like. They're they're pretty welling. I don't like using the covid one too much because the because it's kobe has gone. We we see the light at the end of the tunnel short hiv. We don't okay. People are still dying of aids in canada today. That's something that really people are like. What do you mean. They're still dying of aids. Yes people are still dying of aids. People are catching neural. Syphilis or mother to child transmissions now berta to child transmissions i mean. We haven't seen this in years so we have a faulty s to be approach in canada that needs to be addressed more efficiently and we have to have testing declared an essential service dream covert because we get to herd immunity as the country's saint telling us on a provincial or federal level. We're good to go well. Sorry but that leaves all the inequities and the gaps that existed that were highlighted during the covid crisis glaring at still and how will the new budgets once they can rebalance be cut or reinfected. That's what we're really scared about because we need to round up but we don't see that happening and there's no engagement to do so i don't know if that makes sense. But because there's there's like an alberto with the provincial government the provincial government. that's their issue is that they've cut everything like a like harm. Reduction services are cut so the the people who can contract Hey try are more likely to because there's less harm reduction services and the when it comes to hiv services. They've been playing around with the organizations for laughter not funding's not not sustainable there or sustained the moment so when you look at that and you look at the disparities across canada. There's a lot of actions that we after..
This is Why
"aids" Discussed on This is Why
"Rich or famous you were going to go back to my home in california and lock myself in my house and wait to die because that's what we thought thought of hiv. It was a death sentence but olympic gold medal diver. Greg louganis dr. Susan told them to keep training and compete in the one thousand nine hundred eighty eight games. I think ultimately saved my life. The stigma of being hiv positive was crushing members of the gay community. The disease look different. The world after basketball star magic johnson revealed his diagnosis in nineteen ninety-one researchers struggled for fifteen years to find effective life-prolonging treatments. I think people tend to forget the sorrow difficulty suffering. That came before that. It's remarkable to think that aids was first detected forty years ago that got us thinking that during the covid nineteen pandemic shots now going in arms a year and a half after that virus was detected has any progress been made on hiv aids. We spoke with gary lacosse executive director of the canadian aids society. Gary early june marks forty years since the us cdc first published a report about what ended up being hiv aids Back in nineteen eighty one when you think about just the past four decades of the What a lot of people have called it rightly called. Hiv aids pandemic. what are some of the highlights that come to you or perhaps lowlights if that's a better term to use while the highlights that come to To the front of my mind is that it's the first patient croup that demanded that they be put centre stage with researchers and doctors and to to Require that nothing about them. You've done without them so it was. It was the first patient group. I really demanded that that was at the international aids conference in montreal. The eighty s with silence equals death campaign. And so on so forth for mac up. Not so it's come a long way because then came. Denver principles that Really established the guiding principles for great involvement the people living with aids at the time and now thriving with hiv. Though there's some discussion about exactly with those handicaps overtime. Gary in the early eighties aids was known as grid or gay related immune deficiency but. That's obviously changed. How has hiv aids evolved over time in terms of who defects. Well you see. The virus started off. It was a it was a gay brackets so gay men were dying off. Nobody knew why and the stats have progressed. Two time to be worldwide now fifty fifty split between women and men who have hiv. Okay so we've had there was there's been at least seventy five million cases of hatred view so far approximately let some of them the documentation stats. It's an issue but half of them have died so we have over thirty some thousand million deaths of hiv of aids. I mean an hiv related illnesses. So what what really is in is is Is frightening is that the level of understanding what. Hey try via's today in. Canada is not understood by at all because our youth comprised twenty five percent of the new infections. Okay so that's one of the biggest groups that are being affected by hiv today. So when we look at the curriculum in schools for sexual health knowledge. There's not that's why we're coming out with sexual be a sexual health behavior for youth. Because it's a gap in the space and so on and so forth so it's like youth. You could listen to the show interview. That happened a couple of days ago. The youth that was on the panel was saying i know it hey tried the existed and this was a well educated man and until he contracted hiv outside. It doesn't make sense we do that. This is not taught and this is not widely discussed as because it really reduces the barriers to stigma if we discuss it openly and calmly and with respect and dignity with hiv is and we. Also i think have to lean on our elders and also lean on the shoulders of giants that i've passed to understand exactly what it is time tried to because the people who were to die of. Hey tried to be nine. Nineteen ninety six which was a milestone are thriving that with hiv because of the antiretroviral treatments. That came out in nineteen ninety-six and since then the other biggest statement the milestone. That came out was you. We calls you. Hiv became a treatable disease in one thousand nine hundred ninety six fifteen years into the global pandemic by this time. Nine hundred million people have been affected by hiv. The effective treatment hiv was known as combination drug therapy consisting of free medications. It stopped the virus from replicating in the blood halting the transition from hiv to aids and began to control what coma globally devastating disease. Scientists found that with continued treatment. The amounts of hiv in the blood became so low. That routine tasks could not find it. In other words it was. Undetectable in two thousand and eighteen. It was scientifically confirmed that someone with undetectable levels of hiv could not transmit the virus to a person who doesn't have hiv during sounds. It was unkowns miserable. Undetectable equals.
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"Any musicals that he's like, that movie glamorizes Puerto Rican gang. Clarifies it. And your mother goes, but daddy be watching godfather. Hey, that's about love and family. Family. This is Puerto Rican bullshit. Right. Meanwhile, as soon as he left, we couldn't wait to put west side story. By the way, there's a great story going on now with this, I don't know if you know about what happened at the Suez Canal, there's a giant barge, there's a big vessel that's going down the Suez Canal and it got windy or some shit. This gigantic ship, which is four foot football fields long, 440 million pounds. And it became lodged in the Suez Canal because of the winds and a dust storm, it turned sideways, and here's the thing. It was going to the Netherlands from China. Some bullshit. Because it gets stuck. There's so many ships behind it that can't get through. Like, I'm talking like 50 ships, pirates are coming around. They got to go around Africa now, but here's the thing. The captain of that ship, this could be the best prank ever that went bad. The captain of this ship, they found out that he did a route with his boat. Oh my God. That resembles a penis test of those big asshole. They actually put the diapers. Here's what he was trying to do. He was trying to do like an anal sex joke. And he got stuck in the fucking canal. That is fantastic. And I wanted to bring this shot because the other day, the asbury park press, a local little paper, whatever. Yeah, I know. Was it fucking? Yeah. It was a fucking nurse given a shot of COVID to someone's arm. And somebody, you and I have both been in newsrooms late at night, doing the fucking agates, whatever. Somebody wrote under the picture hot ass fucking nurse. Patient and randa print. Everywhere. It passed and people are bananas because she said, hot ass fucking nurse and jap, Jewish American princess. So people and we've done that. I've done it, and I've sent it and go, listen, make sure this is not gonna fucking slide. I just wrote you a funny joke, made sure it doesn't go to slot. Yeah, you have to make sure. I did like the la Monica when we saw it. Remember, my Friends brother, I was friends with Joe breaks down his brother Willie was like 6 years behind us. He was in high school. And it was a soccer game. Willie played goalie. He only played in like garbage time. It was like a nondescript game. They won the game two nothing. And I said, oh, did will he play? Yeah, will he break some play goal the last fucking ten minutes? And I write the highlight up going Willie breaks don't stop three penalty. Stop three. It's so probable. You never have never happened. And the next day the coach calls it. I don't know what you're talking about. What do you mean? There was no pounding kicks. I said, oh, that's what I was called in. No, I called in the game. I'm sorry, coach must be a communication breakdown. No, there's not. You're trying to give no, I'm not trying to do it. And then we do like, oh God, this poor fucking black guy would call in for his culture has been calling and give you the scores and his points total and they'd say Fernández, two field goals, two free throws. 7 in my life. It was so great. And it's fucking 1230 in the morning. And one guy, a black coach calls in and so wrong. And he goes, baker scored 20 points and I go, bakers, that two K is a three K coach. The guy goes, at least one K one kit. Really? Really? It's one not three. Right on to the next very racist episode. So bad. I know it's very racist, but we had a wrestling coach that was so stupid. I go, is that a coach? Is that, you know, whatever it was, Nancy, is that Emma is in Mary? And he goes, no, and it's a knife. And is it nice? Coaches. I did want last thing. We sent like you said you send the jokes across the room. Right. I sent one. It was like the front car. It was like, I think it was a penalty of soccer, fucking boy soccer thing. The guy was like standing there with his hands like karate chop down, like looking at like talking to the rest. I know what you're doing. And I go, where's my dick? And I sent it to slot. Just to see, just to hear the editing of that, of course. By the way, slot is where the editors sit around the city, the desk, but I wrote the cash. You know what this is. You know what this began. This began when I lived in Manhattan down in the west village, which is a big gay area. And every year they have this big bike a thon. People ride bikes and to raise money for aids, right? Now you guys have heard me say many times if I can't fix my computer and go, I have my computer as aides. I have aids. Even my daughter, I've heard her talk to her teacher. During the Zoom calls and they'll watch you, you online? Yeah, but my computer has aids. I'm so proud of her. Oh, shit, if I hurt her. Oh, it's that. So Joey, there's a picture of a dynamite, clearly he was like really thin and gaunt in his face. The poor guy had HIV, he was riding a bike to raise money. And Joey took this fucking postcard off the wall and the guy's holding the bike. I was a teenager. He's holding the bike up in the air like triumphant, like he just finished racing and Joey road. Spike has aids. And he kept it in the window. In the west village, right? Every gay guy. What's so fucking bad? 'cause nobody's gonna do this. They're gonna think like this kind of movement. I'm not getting it. Dudes have hits. Yeah, dude. Can you get aids from bites? If I sit in a bike, oh my God. It's like this high art is really just a can sitting on the wall. But people think it's high art because like, oh, it's just a can sitting there, yeah. I knew this show would be would run out of the fucking barn. I know, I'm not, I'm not even worried about it. There's just enjoy your Monday with this shot I didn't care. But we're not doing the typical gossip and shit with just being insane. Here's a great story. You played high school quarterback, football club back. You were great. You broke records. The coach of a Massachusetts high school football team was fired the other day after the team used anti semitic slurs during their audibles. They called audibles Auschwitz rabbi and dreidel. Jesus Christ. Now, you can't do it. Listen, dreidel and rabbi, I'm okay. Fine. You can't shout out. No, you can't do that. That's not good, no, it's bad. So the coach Dave may Marin. He's been the coach for many years. He's really good. He's taken into 5 high school super bowls. So clearly these kids think, you know, whatever, whatever coach Dave says, we should do, but I mean, rabbi and dreidel are funny. I've done things as a coach. We call all of you stupid ones. I was the same. I was the same agent said this bikes have aids. I just don't know yet. You don't have the wisdom of being that age, you know, like, all right, hey man. I know, but the guy's fired. The guy got fired. Do you think you need but here's the thing. Coach is doing? A quarterback. I decided to be funny. You got to get rid of, I mean, you can't get rid of the kid. He's a kid. So you got to go, you're the coach. But I mean, what are we going to fucking get Nuremberg up in started again? Because the guy said Auschwitz, I know it's in bad taste, but these kids don't know what Auschwitz is. Most of them have no idea. I would just find out how the fuck it happened. Did you ever do like funny audible? So no. We had a very very new very basic offense. But..
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"Now that's cut money from pep farc from various programs even while saying they're going to end the epidemic by twenty thirty. Now i will be the first one to say. I was wrong if we get to twenty thirty in the epidemics over. But i've heard these stories before and the talk and the action have to meet the can't be opposite. There's a lot of hype than we see this. Cnn people who work in in media is a mark certainly talks about all the time. Like if i see one more headlines as we cured earner you're always like to the point that news source you look at the news source. What do you make of trump saying that. He wants to get rid of hiv aids but he's destroying funding. Anybody who's self-respecting or knows anything. What they're talking about healthcare has quit. I mean you know certainly for somebody who's out to sort of de stabilize their country. Trump's pretty good at doing that economically and certainly hiv and aids defunding it and destroying our healthcare system also has a chance to destabilise. Well you know. There's a difference between authorizing and appropriating when it comes to congress and you know if he makes these declarations than the money has to be there to back them up from. There's no money either. And if he's you know cutting medicare you know wants to eliminate the affordable care act as of yesterday If his cutting funding for cbc and and all these programs than it's not gonna happen. I found it interesting. That original and targeted specific counties in the us as being high risk and they are so someone knows something about what's going on. The question is more the money. Follow these announcements and so far there's no indication of it and like i said i will be the first one to admit i was wrong. You know and and that he was able to do it. you know. But i'm a little more cynical than that right now. Well he'd better hurry before he got impeached or that you posted on twitter which i thought was very interesting. Is your google search for why are writers and you'll automatically fulfil fills that in. Alcoholics always cold crazy depress sad miserable so weird. There's there's a saying that survivors. Who wrote don quixote quoted in latin america. There's nothing so not being vanja. There's nothing so bad that no good can come of it then in every crisis every calamity. there's always a silver lining of people coming together and overcoming their differences to to grow to show the best of humanity. The you know thirty forty years of aids has been able to do that to be able to bring out the best in our own community. There were those of us who talk about. The epidemic could been accused of being nostalgic for the old days. I am not staubach for those days. I'm not nostalgic for newspapers full of obituaries of people who died from aids. I'm not nostalgic for that but there was an undeniable sense of community and purpose. That's kind of lacking now..
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"Now that's cut money from pep farc from various programs even while saying they're going to end the epidemic by twenty thirty. Now i will be the first one to say. I was wrong if we get to twenty thirty in the epidemics over. But i've heard these stories before and the talk and the action have to meet the can't be opposite. There's a lot of hype than we see this. Cnn people who work in in media is a mark certainly talks about all the time. Like if i see one more headlines as we cured earner you're always like to the point that news source you look at the news source. What do you make of trump saying that. He wants to get rid of hiv and aids. But he's destroying funding. Anybody who's self-respecting or knows anything what they're talking about healthcare has quit. I mean you know certainly for somebody who's out to sort of de stabilize their country. Trump's pretty good at doing that economically and certainly hiv and aids defunding it and destroying our healthcare system also has a chance to destabilise well. Well you know. There's a difference between authorizing and appropriating when it comes to congress and you know if he makes these declarations than the money has to be there to back them up from. There's no money either. And if he's you know cutting medicare you know wants to eliminate the affordable care act as of yesterday If his cutting funding for cbc and and all these programs than going to happen. I found it interesting. That original and targeted specific counties in the us as being high risk and they are so someone knows something about what's going on. The question is more the money. Follow these announcements and so far there's no indication of it and like i said i will be the first one to admit i was wrong. You know and and that he was able to do it. you know. But i'm a little more cynical than that right now. Well he'd better hurry before he got impeached or that you posted on twitter which i thought was very interesting. Is your google search for why are writers and you'll automatically fulfil fills that in. Alcoholics always cold crazy depress sad miserable so weird. There's there's a saying that survivors. Who wrote don quixote quoted in latin america. There's nothing so not being vanja. There's nothing so bad that no good can come of it then in every crisis every calamity. there's always a silver lining of people coming together and overcoming their differences to to grow to show the best of humanity. Do you think the you know thirty. Forty years of aids has been able to do that to be able to bring out the best in our own community. There were those of us who talk about. The epidemic could been accused of being nostalgic for the old days. I am not staubach for those days. I'm not nostalgic for newspapers full of obituaries of people who died from aids. I'm not nostalgic for that but there was an undeniable sense of community and purpose. That's kind of lacking now..
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Now that's cut money from pep farc from various programs even while saying they're going to end the epidemic by twenty thirty. Now i will be the first one to say. I was wrong if we get to twenty thirty in the epidemics over. But i've heard these stories before and the talk and the action have to meet the can't be opposite. There's a lot of hype than we see this. Cnn people who work in in media is a mark certainly talks about all the time. Like if i see one more headlines as we cured earner you're always like to the point that news source you look at the news source. What do you make of trump saying that. He wants to get rid of hiv and aids. He's drawing funding anybody who's self-respecting or knows anything. What they're talking about healthcare has quit. I mean you know certainly for somebody who's out to sort of de stabilize their country. Trump's pretty good at doing that economically and certainly hiv and aids defunding it and destroying our healthcare system also has a chance to destabilise. Well you know. There's a difference between authorizing and appropriating when it comes to congress and you know if he makes these declarations than the money has to be there to back them up from. There's no money either. And if he's you know cutting medicare you know wants to eliminate the affordable care act as of yesterday If his cutting funding for cbc and and all these programs than it's not gonna happen. I found it interesting. That original announcement targeted specific counties in the us as being high risk and they are so someone knows something about what's going on. The question is more the money. Follow these announcements and so far there's no indication of it and like i said i will be the first one to admit i was wrong. You know and and that he was able to do it. you know. But i'm a little more cynical than that right now. Well he'd better hurry before he got impeached or that you posted on twitter which i thought was very interesting. Is your google search for why are writers and you'll automatically fulfil fills that in. Alcoholics always cold crazy depress sad miserable so weird. There's there's a saying that survivors. Who wrote don quixote quoted in latin america. There's nothing so not being vanja. There's nothing so bad that no good can come of it then in every crisis every calamity. there's always a silver lining of people coming together and overcoming their differences to to grow to show the best of humanity. Do you think the you know thirty. Forty years of aids has been able to do that to be able to bring out the best in our own community. There were those of us who talk about. The epidemic could been accused of being nostalgic for the old days. I am not staubach for those days. I'm not nostalgic for newspapers full of obituaries of people who died from aids. I'm not nostalgic for that but there was an undeniable sense of community and purpose. That's kind of lacking now..
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"Out to their members And the issue from january nineteen eighty-nine About a third of the magazine is devoted to aids age education age projects. They were working on statistic just all kinds of things that covers is of the quilt is the aids quilt and inside is a latter an open letter to the membership from one of their sustaining members. A sustaining member of someone who's sort of retired like they're not as involved anymore but they're still members and it was from a woman whose husband had died from aids and it was an anonymous letter and she talked about the fear that her family had that anyone would find out that even people in their family did not know but how her husband died or why he died and the isolation that she felt and at the end of the letter. She said she wasn't going to sign her name but she offered. If anyone wants to reach out to me you know. The junior league office knows how to get in touch with me. And i'm glad to talk to you her help you and i thought that it was. It was a beautiful incredibly sad plotter that even among friends among women who she had you know as a sustain or she would have been a volunteer for probably a couple of decades already women. She had known and worked with for years that she did not feel comfortable signing her name. And that's what it was like. What about women of color. Latino women like iris delacruz irish activist in new york. Irish house which is a program in in In west harlem is named after her started by her mother who passed a couple of years ago here in chicago rosa martinez cologne has with color On the west side since the nineties. ray lewis thornton Who announced a woman. Who's african american announced her hiv diagnosis on the cover of essence magazine. nine hundred ninety january one thousand nine hundred issue. I believe thanks very an arm very brave to do what they do..
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"To rectify history And i also found out along the way that women's history in general does not talk about the pandemic. I found a book was billed as definitive history of women in the second half of the twentieth century in the united states that was one paragraph about the epidemic and it was about the efforts of the women of act up to change the government's definition of it so that women could qualify for benefits and medical treatment and that paragraph to not mention act up or any of the women who accomplished that in their four year five. Because that was a big accomplishment. Because i saw much service like women couldn't get aids. You ever quote in your book. This is women. Don't have as they just die from aids that's right because women the way the definition of aids was based on how the virus presented itself and men. So this logan women die faster. This is a disaster. And there was all these like stickers with slogans yes but for women died four times faster from hiv and aids as a consequence of hiv infections. Because of the fact that our medical system was an tying hosted they were not diagnosed until they had full blown aids. And it was. I'll give you an example. You can keep it or not a yeast infection if a man has a yeast infection in his throat that qualifies as possible. Hiv if a woman has fadul houston faction. That didn't qualify. It does now. I mean that was one of the parts of the definition but it was that you know how it presented itself differently because oh women get used infection all the time. That doesn't mean anything. So let's talk about some actual women's names because there's some really great people in your book. That might be forgotten. If it wasn't for your efforts like cynthia neale founder of friends indeed. Cynthia was married to actor patrick. O'neal she lived in the dakota apartment building. John lennon and yoko ono and all them and the very definition of an upper west side new york socialite and she became slowly involved in the community as a lot of women did personal contact. She was very influenced by marianne williamson and her spiritual philosophy that was very popular in the nineteen eighties. Marianne williamson. i'm not familiar with her. Marianne williamson Sort of like louise. I mean with you. Know a very spiritual affirming life-affirming positive thinking spirituality. Do so cynthia started. This group called friends. Indeed which was a support group for people with hiv and it was one of the first one and it was not attached to any other organization it was just itself and the sky was coming to the support group meeting. They call them the big group coming to the support group meetings with his boyfriend to support his boyfriend and he she remembered that he was very intense and really listening to everything was going on and she found out eventually that he was jonathan larson and he was writing a musical The turned out to be rent Which is most everyone knows has an aide storyline to it and a support group that based on friends indeed. He invited to speak to the cast about her work and gave her a cd with all the music on it and She did not get to see the show until after he died but she has remained close with them with the cast. Anthony rapp who was an original cast member star.
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"And so i decided to rectify history And i also found out along the way that women's history in general does not talk about the pandemic. I found a book was billed as definitive history of women in the second half of the twentieth century in the united states that was one paragraph about the epidemic and it was about the efforts of the women of act up to change the government's definition of it so that women could qualify for benefits and medical treatment and that paragraph to not mention act up or any of the women who accomplished that in their four year. Five because that was a big accomplishment is denied so much service like women couldn't get aids you ever quote in your book. This women don't have as they just die from aids that's right because women the way the definition of aids was based on how the virus presented itself and men. So this logan women die faster. This is a disaster. And there was all these like stickers with slogans yes but for women died four times faster from hiv and aids as a consequence of hiv infections. Because of the fact that our medical system was an hosted they were not diagnosed until they had full blown aids. And it was. I'll give you an example. You can keep it or not a yeast infection if a man has a yeast infection in his throat that qualifies as possible. Hiv if a woman has fadul houston faction. That didn't qualify. It does now. I mean that was one of the parts of the definition but it was that you know how it presented itself differently because oh women get used infection all the time. That doesn't mean anything. So let's talk about some actual women's names because there's some really great people in your book. That might be forgotten. If it wasn't for your efforts like cynthia neale founder of friends indeed. Cynthia was married to actor patrick. O'neal she lived in the dakota apartment building. John lennon and yoko ono and all them and the very definition of an upper west side new york socialite and she became slowly involved in the community as a lot of women did personal contact. She was very influenced by marianne williamson and her spiritual philosophy that was very popular in the nineteen eighties. Williamson chameleon with her marianne williamson. Sort of like louise. I mean with you. Know a very spiritual affirming life-affirming positive thinking spirituality. Do so cynthia started. This group called friends. Indeed which was a support group for people with hiv and it was one of the first one and it was not attached.
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"And so i decided to rectify history And i also found out along the way that women's history in general does not talk about the pandemic. I found a book was billed as definitive history of women in the second half of the twentieth century in the united states that was one paragraph about the epidemic and it was about the efforts of the women of act up to change the government's definition of it so that women could qualify for benefits and medical treatment and that paragraph to not mention act up or any of the women who accomplished that in their four year. Five because that was a big accomplishment is denied so much service like women couldn't get aids you ever quote in your book. This women don't have as they just die from aids that's right because women the way the definition of aids was based on how the virus presented itself and men. So this logan women die faster. This is a disaster. And there was all these like stickers with slogans yes but for women died four times faster from hiv and aids as a consequence of hiv infections. Because of the fact that our medical system was an hosted they were not diagnosed until they had full blown aids. And it was. I'll give you an example. You can keep it or not a yeast infection if a man has a yeast infection in his throat that qualifies as possible. Hiv if a woman has fadul houston faction. That didn't qualify. It does now. I mean that was one of the parts of the definition but it was that you know how it presented itself differently because oh you used infection all the time. That doesn't mean anything. So let's talk about some actual women's names because there's some really great people in your book. That might be forgotten. If it wasn't for your efforts like cynthia neale founder of friends indeed. Cynthia was married to actor patrick. O'neal she lived in the dakota apartment building. John lennon and yoko ono and all them and the very definition of an upper west side new york socialite and she became slowly involved in the community as a lot of women did personal contact. She was very influenced by marianne williamson and her spiritual philosophy that was very popular in the nineteen eighties. Marion williamson. I'm not familiar with her. Marianne williamson sort of like louise. I mean with you. Know a very spiritual affirming life-affirming positive thinking spirituality. Do so cynthia started. This group called friends. Indeed which was a support group for people with hiv and it was one of the first one and it was not attached.
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"I can't for the life of me. Remember what was going on. Or where i was or why this popped into my head but i thought i don't want to look back and know that i did nothing and that was why i was doing what i was doing. What was it like your first foray into these. This humanitarian issue for you. I think it was probably just like voluntary of like you know. Putting money in the bucket you know kind of was it hard fundraising in during the crisis. Well it was it was a different kind of fundraising at chicago house. We had at least one event a week so we had one once a month. We had an you know we got all the bar. Money from the tips and everything from little gems bar and we had events at roscoe's and we had a dunk tank at hostage street days. We had a black tie gala but there was at least one event so i was doing a lot more events than i was. I had done before but the grant writing part of it and the individual donors were different because in theater you don't have a lot of anonymous donors and in the community. At that time there were plenty of people. I'll give you money but do not put my name in the ad book. Do not sunday anything. Do not put me on the mailing list. Just cash the check. They were in the closet about their desire to support. Most of them were gay men in the closet who did not want their professional colleagues or their families to know what they were doing And some of them were just people who wanted to do something but did not want their names. Attached to the cause because of the stigma because the stigma but as a straight woman. I could go into a foundation office where they said well. We really wanna give money to this cause but it was safe for me to go in because they didn't really want to meet with anybody who had aids and they acquainted aids and gay so a straight woman walked in there. She's fine. she's safe so victorian. Why was it easier. Do you think or has been historically easier to talk about gay. Men's experience of hiv and aids than women straight or gay is experience of the same thing. I think that it hit first and hardest. Excuse me in the water and the gay community. There's no question about the at least in this country. And i.
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"I can't for the life of me. Remember what was going on. Or where i was or why this popped into my head but i thought i don't want to look back and know that i did nothing and that was why i was doing what i was doing. What was it like your first foray into these. This humanitarian issue for you. I think it was probably just like voluntary of like you know. Putting money in the bucket you know kind of was it hard fundraising in during the crisis. Well it was it was a different kind of fundraising at chicago house. We had at least one event a week so we had one once a month. We had an you know we got all the bar. Money from the tips and everything from little gems bar and we had events at roscoe's and we had a dunk tank at hostage street days. We had a black tie gala but every week there was at least one event. So i was doing a lot more events than i was. I had done before. But the grant writing part of it and the individual donors were different because in theater. You don't have a lot of anonymous donors and in the community. At that time there were plenty of people. I'll give you money but do not put my name in the ad book. Do not sunday anything. Do not put me on the mailing list. Just cash the check. They were in the closet about their desire to support. Most of them were gay men in the closet who did not want their professional colleagues or their families to know what they were doing And some of them were just people who wanted to do something but did not want their names. Attached to the cause because of the stigma because the stigma but as a straight woman. I could go into a foundation office where they said well. We really wanna give money to this cause but it was safe for me to go in because they didn't really want to meet with anybody who had aids and they acquainted aids and gay so if a straight woman walked in there she's fine. She's safe so victoria. Why was it easier. Do you think or has been historically easier to talk about gay. Men's experience of hiv and aids than women straight or gay is experience of the same thing. I think that it hit first and hardest. Excuse me in the water and the gay community. There's no question about the at least in this country. And i.
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"aids" Discussed on Feast of Fun
"I can't for the life of me. Remember what was going on. Or where i was or why this popped into my head but i thought i don't want to look back and know that i did nothing and that was why i was doing what i was doing. What was it like your first foray into these. This humanitarian issue for you. I think it was probably just like voluntary of like you know. Putting money in the bucket you know kind of was it hard fundraising in during the crisis. Well it was it was a different kind of fundraising at chicago house. We had at least one event a week so we had one once a month. We had an you know we got all the bar. Money from the tips and everything from little gems bar and we had events at roscoe's and we had a dunk tank at hostage street days. We had a black tie gala but every week there was at least one event. So i was doing a lot more events than i was. I had done before. But the grant writing part of it and the individual donors were different because in theater. You don't have a lot of anonymous donors and in the community. At that time there were plenty of people. I'll give you money but do not put my name in the ad book. Do not sunday anything. Do not put me on the mailing list. Just cash the check. They were in the closet about their desire to support. Most of them were gay men in the closet who did not want their professional colleagues or their families to know what they were doing And some of them were just people who wanted to do something but did not want their names. Attached to the cause because of the stigma because the stigma but as a straight woman. I could go into a foundation office where they said well. We really wanna give money to this cause but it was safe for me to go in because they didn't really want to meet with anybody who had aids and they acquainted aids and gay a straight woman walked in there. She's fine she's safe so victorian. Why was it easier. Do you think or has been historically easier to talk about gay. Men's experience of hiv and aids than women straight or gay is experience of the same thing. I think that it hit first and hardest. Excuse me in the water and the gay community. There's no question about the at least in this country. And i.