Princess Diana shaking the hands of an AIDS

Princess Diana shaking the hands of an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991.

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  1. People do not realize how powerful that gesture was at the time. With a singular gesture she humanized people who were systematically being shunned and casted out. I was very young when this happened and still remember it making global news and the imprint it left. Imagine going viral for the right reasons for the right gesture without any of the social media platforms available to us today.

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  2. For people who weren’t alive during the AIDS epidemic, you don’t understand how big of a deal her actions were. So much fear and conflicting information about who was vulnerable and who should be afraid. She was truly groundbreaking

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  4. This 1991 photo was not the first handshake to an AIDS patient. She first did so in 1987 (different older picture) when she first opened a clinic in the UK to serve AIDS patients – the first unit in the country.

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  5. With so little known then and she still knew more than anyone. She was gone before I was born but I’m reminded often how great she was. Also love that pop culture gives her tribute more than once. Not sure how many drag queens did her in RPDR but definitely more than once. Recently the newest season Global edition the uk drag queen did her for snatch game! Love it! 💞

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  6. So she was applauded because she shook this persons hands without gloves? Shaking someone’s hands is not gunna give you aids if you did it 6,000 times without gloves.

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  7. Here’s the awful joke that someone else told, but I laughed so I’m just awful –

    “They thought it was a big deal when princess Diana shook hands with someone with aids, but Freddy Mercury used to have sex with them.”

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  8. Diana had the shitiest luck in men. Charles broke her heart. The Paki surgeon didn’t want her to cook for him. Dodi was a playboy and had her killed. The others just wanted to stick her and tell. A bunch of twats.

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