If your Italian, then you love pizza. If you Chinese then you’re great at math. If you gay, then you got aids. This was a stereotype that people had in their minds in the 1980’s. This was the age of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). During this time period, Gays were definitely discriminated. They couldn’t make friends, get jobs, etc. At the start people had no idea what AIDS was, all they knew was that majority of gays had it, and that was that. People were afraid to touch gays, to talk to them; afraid that they might catch it.
It was used in movies, music, comedy, and other types of media. It was even written into magazines etc. One specific one is Eddie Murphy doing a stand up comedy show called “Delirious” (1983). Basically he uses gays in his stand up and uses it to make the audience laugh.
You may view it by simply going to www.youtube.com and search for “Eddie Murphy – Delirious” (Caution, rated r for language)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8301093&dopt=Abstract
http://gaylife.about.com/od/amiga1/a/gaymyths.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS
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