Savage Lovecast Episode 815
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast at savage.love. |
| 0:05.0 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:14.0 | well, there's nothing you can't ask on the Savage Love cast oh boy that nancy reagan stamp june first this year the first day of pride month |
| 0:30.5 | jill biden presided over a ceremony at the white house to unveil a stamp a u U.S. postage stamp, honoring former first lady |
| 0:39.6 | Nancy Reagan. For my younger listeners, Nancy Reagan was the first lady of the United States |
| 0:44.9 | in the 1980s. She was married to this guy, Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, |
| 0:51.2 | former B-movie star, who was president of the United States from January of 1981 to |
| 0:56.4 | January of 1989. And Nancy Reagan was useless when she wasn't malevolent, as was her husband. |
| 1:04.3 | During the AIDS crisis, in particular, they were worse than useless. They were harmful. |
| 1:09.8 | They stood by and did nothing while tens of thousands of gay and by men died, |
| 1:14.2 | and the human immunodeficiency virus spread. |
| 1:17.8 | Their inaction made the AIDS crisis incalculably worse and cost hundreds of thousands of people, |
| 1:23.6 | millions of people all over the world, gay and straight, their lives. |
| 1:28.5 | Most infamously, |
| 1:34.1 | when Rock Hudson was dying of HIV AIDS, he was a movie star, a supporter of the Reagan's, a close personal friend of Nancy Reagan's. When he was dying of AIDS, Nancy Reagan famously refused, |
| 1:41.8 | or infamously refused to help him. It was 1985, more than 5,000 Americans had already died, |
| 1:47.6 | but Nancy Reagan didn't want to, quote, get into it. |
| 1:52.1 | It would be two more years before the Reagan's decided to get into it |
| 1:56.5 | and do something about HIV-AIDS. |
| 2:00.0 | Anyway, a lot of gay people out there thought it was a little tone deaf of the Biden administration |
| 2:05.7 | to honor Nancy Reagan on the first day of Pride Month. |
| 2:09.1 | And for the record, the Biden administration didn't decide to issue a stamp honoring Nancy |
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