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🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the microversion of the Savage Love cast at Savage.loaf. |
0:04.2 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
0:14.2 | while there's nothing you can't pass on the Savage Love cast. |
0:23.2 | Oh boy, that Nancy Reagan stamp. June 1st, this year, the first day of Pride Month, Jill Biden |
0:32.2 | presided over a ceremony at the White House to unveil a stamp, a US Postage stamp honoring |
0:38.2 | former First Lady, Nancy Reagan. |
0:41.2 | My younger listeners, Nancy Reagan, was the First Lady of the United States in the 1980s. |
0:46.2 | She was married to this guy, Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, former B-movie star, |
0:53.2 | who was president of the United States from January of 1981 to January of 1989. |
0:58.2 | And Nancy Reagan was useless when she wasn't malevolent, as was her husband. |
1:04.2 | During the AIDS crisis, in particular, they were worse than useless. They were harmful. |
1:09.2 | 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. |
1:17.2 | There in action made the AIDS crisis incalculably worse and cost hundreds of thousands of people, |
1:23.2 | millions of people all over the world gay and straight their lives. |
1:27.2 | Most infamously, when Rock Hudson was dying of HIV AIDS, he was a movie star, a supporter of the Reagans, |
1:34.2 | a close personal friend of Nancy Reagans. |
1:37.2 | When he was dying of AIDS, Nancy Reagan famously refused, or infamously refused, to help him. |
1:44.2 | It was 1985, more than 5,000 Americans had already died, but Nancy Reagan didn't want to, quote, get into it. |
1:52.2 | It would be two more years before the Reagans decided to get into it and do something about HIV AIDS. |
1:59.2 | Anyway, a lot of gay people out there thought it was a little tone-duff of the Biden administration |
2:05.2 | to honor Nancy Reagan on the first day of Pride Month. |
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