There are others who know even more directly how offensively ahistorical this is, but, suffice it to say, this is complete bullshit: There was an entire infrastructure of laws passed and policies implemented stigmatizing people with AIDS — some of which still exist!
https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1457835361812496395
"For more than 20 years, people living with HIV or AIDS needed look no further than the United States' front door for a reminder of the stigma associated with their disease." abcnews.go.com/Politics/unite… 
"The FDA initially banned gay and bisexual men from ever giving blood in 1983, then revised the lifetime ban in 2015 to a year's sexual abstinence." nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…
And, of course, there are actual criminal laws that were passed: "Many of these state laws criminalize behaviors that cannot transmit HIV – such as biting or spitting – and apply regardless of actual transmission, or intent." cdc.gov/hiv/policies/l…
None of this even gets into the quasi-governmental issues: families using the lack of legal recognition of same-sex relationships to bar partners from making decisions about their loved one, let alone keeping a home or possessions after a partner's death.
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