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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.



The people who use patriotism for every reason except actually caring for their fellow citizens.





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