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It's important to remember that any community can spread it. Needle sharing among intravenous drug users comes to mind. However, you can't deny that HIV has struck a generational blow upon the LGBTQ+ community.

If this works it will be the end to an era of fear. Many will remember those that where lost and wish this only happened sooner. A new reason to celebrate is underselling the impact this will have.

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It seems to me like lumping lesbians and the queer into this calculus is a little insensitive because it was almost exclusively gay men and trans women who bore the brunt. I'm sure this press release ran by a publicist who said, "we have to use all the letters or else we'll get torn to shreds on Twitter."

I get what your saying.

But on the other hand we are just talking about celebrating this. I feel like those sub-communities are probably more aware of the impact HIV than the average cis straight person and are probably going to celebrate this as well.

I don't get what's insensitive about it at all so maybe I am missing your point.

If we get down to brass tacks, this is a situation where sex takes precedence over gender. The HIV epidemic in the West was borne by XY people, and the history of HIV in America is by and large an XY history. What are we obfuscating by painting this history with a broadly "queer" brush?

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