Gay kontakte hannover

In , an unu­sual form of pneu­mo­nia and a unique form of skin can­cer, Kapo­si’s sar­coma, occur­red more fre­quently in gay men, first in the USA and then for the first time in Ger­many in These phe­no­mena were appar­ently due to an acqui­red immune defi­ci­ency, as was soon cor­rectly assu­med. This dise­ase was initi­ally cal­led Gay Peo­p­le’s Immuno Defi­ency Syn­drome (GIDS). The Ger­man media, above all Der Spie­gel, soon repor­ted exten­si­vely on this new gay epi­de­mic, alt­hough there was ulti­m­ately no cla­rity about the strict cau­ses of the dise­ase. Alt­hough it was suspec­ted as early as that it could be tra­ced back to a trans­mis­si­ble patho­gen, HIV was not con­firmed as the actual cause until March 

These reports were also read with con­cern in the Hano­ver­ian les­bian and gay cen­ter Residence e.V. in Johann­sen­straße. Alt­hough no con­crete cases of AIDS had yet been repor­ted in Hano­ver, the gays here were also worried about the dise­ase and, above all, about govern­ment repri­sals. Con­