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I assume this is in reference to the US (Regan’s) (lack of / adversarial) response to AIDS in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan_and_AIDS
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It was not (at least not entirely). It was mostly general frustration at the demonisation of lgbt folks and contraception in the past, mostly due to Catholocism. If there wasn’t as much of that, then I think HIV probably wouldn’t be as much of a “thing” as it is nowadays.