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gay-related immune deficiency
(redirected from Gay-related immunodeficiency)

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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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It is named "gay cancer" or GRID, Gay-related Immunodeficiency, later changed to AIDS.
A timeline of the homosexual "rights" juggernaut by Catholic Insight
In March 1982, The Advocate's Nathan Fain wrote the magazine's first major article on GRID, or gay-related immunodeficiency, which became known as AIDS.
March 18, 1982: Is our "lifestyle" hazardous to our health? by Romesburg, Don / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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