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This homosexual has AIDS, 1987

By presenting AIDS as “a people(s) disease; this poster from the Texas Department of State Health Services attempted to convince readers that people with AIDS could as easily be children as gay men. The poster also made a case for (ABC” AIDS prevention: practice abstinence, be faithful, or use a condom. This strategy became central to President George W. Bush’s AIDS initiative in the first years of the twenty-first century.

  • Publisher(s):
    AIDS Prevention Project (TX)
  • Type:
    Poster
Blue tinted photograph of a white baby in a diaper smiling.
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    This homosexual has AIDS.

    AIDS is a gay disease, right?

    Think again.

    This child is not a homosexual. But this child has AIDS.

    A gift from loving parents who made a fatal mistake. They forgot AIDS is a people’s disease. People get it from people. And people give it to people. Which is why hundreds and thousands of people all over the world are dying of AIDS.

    AIDS is incurable. But it is preventable. By not having sex. By having sex with only one partner. Or by using a condom.

    Remember, you have a choice.

    This child didn’t.

    Distributed by The Texas Department of MHMR

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