Question

From the And The Band Played On: Mention the names used to identify the disease. In what way did this contribute to promoting discrimination and homophobia towards the community homosexual?

Answer 1

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic is a 1987 book by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Randy Shilts. The book depicts the discovery and spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with a special focus on government indifference and political infighting. The disease was referred to as plague, g-a-y disease, g-a-y cancer and so on.

Since AIDS was called g-a-y disease, as it was mostly found in homosexual men, it created great discrimination and homophobia in them. Without understanding it's cause and transmission, people started alienating the diseased which generated social stigma.