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A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 6 months ago by Wahots@pawb.social to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org
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TIL Nancy Pelosi seriously went to bat for gay people during the AIDS epidemic, despite it being a near universally unpopular position in the 80s. Threw hands with the Regan administration for being dicks as well.

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[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

Right, like, why are we writing this kind of piece in 2025? She's just retiring, calm down. I'll accept this kind of puff piece when she actually kicks it - at that point, it'll be worth remembering the good things she did, and remembering her entire arc as a grim warning for the young radicals of today. But she's just retiring. Let's not inflate her ego while she's still alive, and still using the American people for profit.

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