HIV/AIDS has been a major part of the lgbt community for some time now. It started in the late 70's when Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal cofounded this disease. People automatically thought that if you had AIDS then you were a homosexual, but later on in the 80's they found out that this disease could be transmitted through heterosexual people also. Still people continuously thought that you had to be a homosexual to get the disease. In other countries they would post advertisements saying "Aids-don't die from ignorance"(Mens Sexual Health) things like this show how people treated people from the lgbt community, with such disrespect. But this all changed a little when Ryan White a 13 year old boy who was straight was diagnosed with Aids. He became a major part of this disease and he was known around all around the world when he got expelled from his middle school because of his infection. At this time the disease was not known that well and parents of the other children did not what White going to a school with their children, they would say that he had to have done something wrong to get this disease and it was gods punishment to him for being a homosexual, which in fact he is not. Today people still believe that it is only homosexuals who can get this disease, this topic needs to become more relevant to people so they can learn that its not only from them and anyone can get it. The ignorance of people needs to stop.