Homophobia, Anita Bryant
If you weren't there, it's hard to overstate just how much damage this woman did to gay and trans rights activism in the 1970s and 1980s. Her "Save Our Children" campaign (sound familiar?) caught the ear of Ronald Reagan, who refused to fund research into a cure for HIV/AIDS because they both felt the disease was a form of divine retribution, God punishing the gays for our "sinful lifestyle".
LGBTQ activism wouldn't recover until well into the 1990s and funding was finally pushed into the AIDS crisis when cishet folks vegan contracting the diseases, but that decade and a half delay cost our community hundreds of thousands of lives, and we still feel the hole it created in our network of wisdom and elders to this day.
Rest in piss you monster. I hope Hell is a billion fruit pies.
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