Sage Warren’s Reviews > It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic > Status Update

Seeing all the hoops ACT UP had to jump through just to be taken seriously or see any action is wild to read about.

Ronald Reagan is a scumbag. That is all.

I have learned so much. Mostly how queer folks are constantly being failed, even now. 300 anti-lgbtq+ laws have been passed. Something back then they were facing. The 4Hs in relation to HIV was something completely new to me.

“the 4H disease” was coined standing for Haitians, Homosexuals, Hemophiliacs, and Heroin users

What the hell???

Also learning that they proposed tattooing HIV folks reminded me of something