Activists Hold HHS Die-In Over Cuts To LGBTQ Health

The Hill reports:

Demonstrators gathered Thursday on the steps of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for a “die-in” over proposed funding cuts at the agency that could devastate programs addressing LGBTQ health disparities.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to radically reshape HHS and its approach to health care, including through funding cuts to programs geared toward treating and preventing HIV, a virus that in the U.S. disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men. Kennedy previously questioned evidence linking HIV to AIDS, a discovery that won a Nobel Prize in 2008.

On Thursday, more than 100 participants sank slowly to the ground while Matthew Rose, senior public policy advocate for the Human Rights Campaign, which organized the demonstration, read aloud from a list of possible outcomes that funding cuts at HHS would have on the LGBTQ community.

Read the full article. Kennedy very recently claimed that poppers cause AIDS. One of Kennedy’s biggest supporters in Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson, has claimed that the COVID vaccine causes AIDS. Watch the video. Watch all of it.

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