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Gay-Related Immune Deficiency

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Gay-Related Immune Deficiency
GRID. An early (pre-1984) name for AIDS, based on the link between a collapsed immune system and the known association with male homosexuality
gay-related immune deficiency,
n the term adopted in the 1980s in reference to AIDS, when it was considered to affect only homosexual males.
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Although its origins were elsewhere, American medical supremacy meant it was only defined and named once it appeared among healthy young gay men on the two coasts; indeed for about a year in the early 1980's it was known as Gay-Related Immune Deficiency or GRID, until it became clear that anal intercourse was far from the only effective means of its spread.
Homosexual revisited 35 years later by Altman, Dennis / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
The New York Times details "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals" on July 3; this is the first media story on AIDS, 1982 * After categorizing the disease as an epidemic in 1981, the CDC drops the term gay-related immune deficiency for the more accurate acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
I can! by The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
There still is no known cure for a disease that was discovered in 1981 and originally called Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.
TRAGIC TO MAGIC, 15 YEARS LATER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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