Word: denialism
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Still, it's easy to understand the tentative sense of hope and excitement that has spread across the AIDS community in the months since the Vancouver conference. Ho's speech, for all its caveats, provided the first concrete evidence that HIV is not insurmountable. After 15 years of horror, denial and disappointment, the pendulum may at long last be swinging against AIDS...
During those first years, AIDS was unspeakable. Media coverage was nonexistent, and denial ruled. The founding members of G.M.H.C. tried to hand out flyers regarding the new disease on the dock at Fire Island, and no one would take them. Rumors abounded--that the virus was spread through poppers, that it was deliberate government genocide, that it was carried in swine flu; I remember thinking that the ultimate gay plague would be contracted over the phone. Soon, however, compassion and terror galvanized the gay community. Anxious mobs attended Larry Kramer's landmark AIDS drama, The Normal Heart, in which medical...
...says Dailey, "but I know that drug use is more prevalent in the freshman class than ever before." Despite all the societal angst generated over drug use during the 1980s, she feels that attitudes since then have softened. "In the late '70s and early '80s there was plenty of denial but also the idea that drugs aren't good," says Dailey. "Honestly, today a lot of parents don't feel that way. They hark back to the days when they used. And they don't realize what's happened to drug content or what the implications are of using...
Drew ended up in outpatient rehab. "They tell you you're a drug addict, and if you say you're not, you're in denial," he says. "If you say you only use it occasionally, they say you're rationalizing." Still, things improved. Some therapy sessions included Drew's mother. "There was complete honesty," he recalls. "It was the best our relationship has ever been...
Student groups are an essential part of life on campus (the recent council budgets demonstrate a recognition of this). A vote against the referendum isn't a denial of this fact--it is, however, a recognition that stripping the committee fund is not the best way to raise money for student groups...