The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history.

Alysia Abbott
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The weight of the United States' attempt to contain the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s is often ignored in favor of more recent events. As a result, historians have been forced to rely on queer studies textbooks to tell the story of the AIDS crisis. In his article from The New York Times , "The Weight of a Hero," Mark Arax argues that these books have been used to romanticize a forgotten, often tragic time in American history. "These histories rarely mention the heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years," he writes. "They are relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history."

Source: Fairyland: A Memoir Of My Father

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