I read the comment differently that you apparently and that s read in the present tense Also as someone who is part of the LGBT community and has been intimately aware of AIDS and those with it since the early 80s I can tell you that resentment isn t really accurate Look I ve known more than 100 friends who have died from the disease at least 2 3 of them dying in the 1980s the remainder in the early to mid 1990s before the drugs got better and more effective over the long term There was a time when I was attending multiple funerals every month I still know a good number of men who remain HIV positive but have somehow stayed alive with the disease for more than two decades I can testify as a first hand witness that it wasn t resentment people in the gay community were feeling it was anger And certainly not because of Ryan White s openness of what it was like for someone outside the gay community to contract the disease The anger was directed largely at the US government as well as those who insisted that those who did get sick and die died because of who they were and were being punished Ryan White and Elizabeth Glaser put a new face to AIDS most certainly but I know of no one in the gay community and as someone who is actually a part of the gay community I think I would have a better perspective than someone who isn t no matter how close they think they are were to those in the queer world who felt resentment over the attention AIDS received after their AIDS diagnoses became public knowledge If anything the gay community and those with HIV AIDS within the gay community were elated that something was now going to be done while skeptical it might be short lived and or selective yet still quite angry that when it was a gay disease it wasn t important enough for the POTUS to acknowledge