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It is impossible to discuss queer sexual health without acknowledging the deep, lingering scars of the early HIV/AIDS epidemic. For the older generation of the LGBTQ+ community, the hard-fought sexual liberation of the 1970s was violently interrupted by a virus that decimated an entire demographic while global governments and medical institutions largely looked the other way.
