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LGBTQ community confronts ‘excruciating’ monkeypox and its stigma
LOS ANGELES: 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 of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.While there is still widespread public confusion about the precise nature and spread of the disease, it is a fact that the overwhelming majority of monkeypox patients in the United States identify as LGBTQ and are male.For some, the situation evokes dark parallels with the 1980s, when HIV/AIDS was stigmatized as a “gay plague,“ hospitals and funeral homes turned away patients and victims, and White House officials either cracked homophobic jokes or simply igno

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