{"id":500,"date":"2018-03-26T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=500"},"modified":"2018-03-26T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T00:41:07","slug":"instagram-4-aids-die-in-protests-social-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-4-aids-die-in-protests-social-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram 4 &#8211; AIDS Die In Protests (social issue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/die-in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-501\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/die-in-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/die-in-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/die-in.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The AIDS epidemic hit the LGBTQ+ community hard in the 1990s. Despite it&#8217;s large impact on multiple communities, the AIDS epidemic was largely ignored by the political administration. Pat Buchanan infamously said, &#8220;The poor homosexuals. They have declared war on nature and now nature is exacting an awful retribution&#8221; (Rimmerman). Die ins, like the one shown above, were used as a form of protest and a way to gain awareness for the issues faced. Organizations like ACT UP called for political action and funding of AIDS research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Photo by Chuck Stallard June 1990<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Image Received From: ONE National Gay &amp; Lesbian Archives\u00a0<\/span>http:\/\/digitallibrary.usc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15799coll4\/id\/375\/rec\/54<\/p>\n<p>Additional Citation:<\/p>\n<p>Craig Rimmerman, \u201cThe Conflict Over HIV\/AIDS Policy,\u201d in The Lesbian and Gay Movements.\u00a0Assimilation or Liberation? (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2015), 33-74.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AIDS epidemic hit the LGBTQ+ community hard in the 1990s. Despite it&#8217;s large impact on multiple communities, the AIDS epidemic was largely ignored by the political administration. Pat Buchanan infamously said, &#8220;The poor homosexuals. They have declared war on nature and now nature is exacting an awful retribution&#8221; (Rimmerman). Die ins, like the one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-4-aids-die-in-protests-social-issue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instagram 4 &#8211; AIDS Die In Protests (social issue)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,30,32,6],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-act-up","tag-aids","tag-die-in-protest","tag-lgbtqexperiencesusa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}