{"id":407,"date":"2018-02-20T19:21:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=407"},"modified":"2018-02-20T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:21:47","slug":"hes-so-cute-i-could-just-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/hes-so-cute-i-could-just-die\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s so cute, I could just die!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-20-at-7.08.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-408\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-20-at-7.08.27-PM-235x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-20-at-7.08.27-PM-235x300.png 235w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-20-at-7.08.27-PM.png 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This poster is relevant to our class because the HIV\/AIDS crisis was originally thought to only infect gay men, and during that time the LGBTQ+ community endured many injustices and buried many of our own.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When HIV\/AIDS first emerged, it was called GRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>To examine the history of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States, I think it is important to do research and learn about the HIV\/AIDS crisis and the death and pain that this disease caused.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Also, the U.S. government, particularly President Ronald Reagan, has long been criticized for their reluctance to provide any funds or resources to research this disease until it eventually became apparent that \u201cGRID\u201d affected the white heterosexual population, and not just the gay population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I find this poster interesting because of the irony of the playful words above, in comparison to the morbid second meaning brought forth by the text underneath.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This poster sends the message that HIV\/AIDS is not something to be taken lightly, and that if you do not use a condom, you are risking death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-RF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poster is relevant to our class because the HIV\/AIDS crisis was originally thought to only infect gay men, and during that time the LGBTQ+ community endured many injustices and buried many of our own.\u00a0 When HIV\/AIDS first emerged, it was called GRID: Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.\u00a0 To examine the history of the LGBTQ+ community in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/hes-so-cute-i-could-just-die\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He&#8217;s so cute, I could just die!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}