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After the Wrath of God AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion

Anthony M. Petro

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts. The target of their protest was the minister inside, who was handing out condoms to his congregation while delivering a serm...

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Behind the Bastards

It was discussed as an Oxford University Press textbook about the impact of American religion on the AIDS crisis, suggesting that a lack of access to administration officials for gay people due to staff changes contributed to the Reagan administration's failure to adequately address the crisis.

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the Reagan era ushered in not only a new national leader but also a new White House staff that included a number of anti-gay conservatives chief among them Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer and William Bennett...

— Episode: Part One: Ronald and Nancy Reagan: The B...

Episode: Part One: Ronald and Nancy Reagan: The Bastards Be...

It was discussed as an Oxford University Press textbook about the impact of American religion on the AIDS crisis, suggesting that a lack of access to administration officials for gay people due to staff changes contributed to the Reagan administration's failure to adequately address the crisis.

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the Reagan era ushered in not only a new national leader but also a new White House staff that included a number of anti-gay conservatives chief among them Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer and William Bennett the shift consequently curtailed the already limited access that gay and lesbian leaders had to aid within the previous administration as historian William Turner puts it rather than having highly sympathetic White House and executive agency staffers serving under a largely indifferent president who supported the basic logic of civil rights, suddenly activists faced hostile staffers serving under a largely indifferent president who opposed the basic logic of civil rights.

Episode: Part One: Ronald and Nancy Reagan: The Bastards Be...

It was mentioned as an Oxford University Press textbook that discussed how American religion impacted the AIDS crisis, and tied much of the Reagan administration's failure to the lack of access gay people had to administration officials.

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the Reagan era ushered in not only a new national leader but also a new White House staff that included a number of anti-gay conservatives chief among them Pat Buchanan, Gary Bauer and William Bennett

rather than having highly sympathetic White House and executive agency staffers serving under a largely indifferent president who supported the basic logic of civil rights, suddenly activists faced hostile staffers serving under a largely indifferent president who opposed the basic logic of civil rights.

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