Monkeypox: LGBTQ community confronts disease and its stigma - Moneycontrol

7/29/2022 12:00:00 AM3 years 7 months ago
by AFP

Majority of monkeypox patients identify as LGBTQ and are male. The situation evokes dark parallels with the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was stigmatized as a "gay plague".

The spread of the monkeypox virus and its prevalence among gay men has raised widespread fear, growing anger and a number of uncomfortable questions for a community still scarred by the early years o… [+4387 chars]

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Monkeypox: LGBTQ community confronts disease and its stigma - Moneycontrol

Majority of monkeypox patients identify as LGBTQ and are male. The situation evokes dark parallels with the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was stigmatized as a &quot;gay plague&quot;.

Majority of monkeypox patients identify as LGBTQ and are male. The situation evokes dark parallels with the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was stigmatized as a "gay plague".