History of HIV/AIDS (redirect from Gay-related immune deficiency)
"GRID", or "gay-related immune deficiency"; other less common gay-specific terms included "gay compromise syndrome", "gay lymph node syndrome", "gay cancer"...
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HIV/AIDS (redirect from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had also been coined. However, after determining that AIDS was not isolated to the gay community, it was...
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HIV and men who have sex with men (redirect from HIV among gay black men)
as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID), "gay cancer", and "gay compromise syndrome". It was not until July 1982 that the term Acquired Immune Deficiency...
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Grid, a tributary of the Părău River in Brașov County, Romania Gay-related immune deficiency, or GRID, an early suggested name for AIDS Keith Caldwell (1895–1980)...
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physician and immunologist known for his 1981 identification of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a new disease, and for his HIV/AIDS research, HIV/AIDS...
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Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric (redirect from Anti-gay slogans)
newspapers labeled it a "gay plague". For a few years, the misleading technical name for the disease was gay-related immune deficiency. The slogan "AIDS Kills...
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1981. In the general press, the term GRID, which stood for gay-related immune deficiency, had been coined. The CDC, in search of a name and looking at...
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Ryan White (category AIDS-related deaths in Indiana)
feel comfortable doing." In the early 1980s, AIDS was known as gay-related immune deficiency, because the disease had first been identified among primarily...
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Timeline of HIV/AIDS (category Infectious disease-related lists)
federal bureaucrats and the CDC to replace GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) as evidence showed it was not gay specific. September 24 - The Centers for Disease...
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Ronald Reagan and AIDS (category LGBTQ-related controversies in the United States)
gay men, diseases which are normally only found in immunocompromised patients. The disease was initially known as GRID (gay-related immune deficiency)...
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Patrick Cowley (category American gay musicians)
still referred to as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID) by American doctors – misdiagnosis was common and so Cowley, who was gay, was discharged from...
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& Gay Switchboard in London. At the switchboard, she started to take calls about a mystery illness which became known as GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency)...
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cause of a mysterious new syndrome, AIDS (known at the time as "gay-related immune deficiency" or GRID). Rozenbaum had suggested at scientific meetings that...
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thought that the immune deficiency was only prevalent among gay men, the disease was initially called Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (or GRID). Hence,...
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The Normal Heart (film) (category Gay-related films)
condition with an illness that is now being referred to as gay-related immune deficiency (GRID). They stay in rooms that many hospital staff are afraid...
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LGBTQ rights organization (redirect from Lesbian and gay rights organizations)
these LGBT organizations. In 1981, American doctors began using gay-related immune deficiency (GRID) as a term for what would later be called acquired immunodeficiency...
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PMC 1731376. PMID 11253129. "Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID) - Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy (ASCIA)"...
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Sylvester (singer) (category American gay musicians)
discovered HIV/AIDS virus – at the time still referred to as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID) by American doctors – and was in a deteriorating physical...
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Rupert Whitaker (category English gay men)
disease referred to 'Gay-Related Immune Deficiency'. Following his involvement in a conference organised by London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, he worked...
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under the name Grid in 1992--a name that roots back to the term Gay Related Immune Deficiency (or GRID) which is what the AIDS virus was first dubbed in 1982...
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LA Weekly that Baker had suffered from AIDS, then known as "gay-related immune deficiency" (GRID), for approximately two years before his death. Ehrenstein's...
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AIDS Vancouver (section Gay Games III: Vancouver 1990)
discussing Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID), often referred to as "gay cancer," sparking a discussion about its potential impact on Vancouver's gay community...
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contained within the gay population under the title of GRID (gay related immune deficiency). 71% of 3,064 reported cases were of gay and bisexual men; 12%...
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diagnosed with what had until August of 1982 been known as Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). Burks met the patient, who requested to see his mother...
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reported in the summer of 1983, known at the time as GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. In the first months of the outbreak, there was no local organization...
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up till that point called GRID (gay-related immune deficiency). They proposed the term AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), as evidence by this...
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branded as a form of “gay cancer,” due to the high infection rate of AIDS in gay men. It was later renamed to Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (GRID). The disease...
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HIV/AIDS denialism (category LGBTQ-related conspiracy theories)
strains of the virus. A constellation of symptoms named "gay-related immune deficiency" was noted in 1982. In 1983, a group of scientists and doctors...
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Falsettos (category LGBTQ-related musicals)
understood by the medical community and was eventually called GRID (Gay-related immune deficiency) by The New York Times in May 1982. Lapine has described the...
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problem, and was rumoured to have agreed on 'human immune deficiency virus' (HIDV or HIV).' Capital Gay 11 April 4. 1986: 'We propose that the AIDS retroviruses...
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