Ronald reagan on gays

Believe it or not, Reagan was one of the first major politicians in history to come out for gay rights. Just a year before he announced his candidacy for president, he came out forcefully against.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan wave to supporters at an electoral meeting in November, Excerpted from The Gay Metropolis: The Landmark History of Gay Life in America by Charles Kaiser.

In this exclusive excerpt, he reveals the extent to which whisperings of a conspiracy from California to Washington, when met with political opportunism and overblown anxiety over the potential.

When it came to AIDS, Ronald Reagan was far too late and billions of dollars short. That much is clear, as even a charitable rear-view-mirror-look at the history of the epidemic would show. No.