Mardi Gras & World Pride should be apology time for the Australian Red Cross who maligned the gay community over HIV in 1983
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Charles MacKenzie, President of Infected Blood Australia, speaks about last nights 45th Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade on Oxford St, which is a major celebration in Australia today but it wasn’t always the case. Forty years ago homosexuals were treated like criminals and were even maligned by the Australian Red Cross when HIV was announced as having contaminated the blood supply.
Show notes
Register your support for a Royal Commission and/or compensation form
https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/registration
Timeline of Australian blood donors https://www.infectedbloodaustralia.com/timeline
Bad blood: The contamination of Australia's blood supply and the emergence of gay activism in the age of AIDS
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14443050109387641?journalCode=rjau20
AIDS action committee reacts Family team using ‘fear tactics’ Canberra Times Tuesday 20 November 1984
https://ddd792de-b24d-47fe-8177-91b7438b0894.usrfiles.com/ugd/ddd792_bfd7618a06ee46dba70936736015dfce.pdf
MAP OF AIDS' DEADLY MARCH EVOLVES FROM HEPATITIS STUDY
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/02/01/map-of-aids-deadly-march-evolves-from-hepatitis-study/47cd206c-c8d9-4082-896f-a075e53bd221/
Worry as Hepatitis B serum runs low Sydney Morning Herald, November 19 1984
https://static.wixstatic.com/media/ddd792_1e6db400c6d249569cdae3b51cb07575~mv2.jpg
Hepatitis B Vaccine Experiment On American Gays
https://www.modernghana.com/news/858627/hepatitis-b-vaccine-experiment-on-american-gays.html
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