(LifeSiteNews) — As Dr. Anthony Fauci accepted an award from an LGBTQ equality organization earlier this week, he told the homosexual and transgendered audience, “I am deeply honored to be part of your history.”
Fauci was in Philadelphia on Sunday to receive an award from the Equality Forum, which coordinates LGBT History Month, oversees the application for and installation of government-approved LGBT historic markers, produces documentary films, and undertakes other “high-impact initiatives,” according to its website.
“Over these many decades, I have not simply admired the community — I have genuinely enjoyed being part of the conversation with it,” Fauci told the crowd. “I’ve enjoyed the arguments, debates, disagreements, the humor, the friendship and above all the extraordinary commitment to alleviate suffering and prevent premature death for persons living with HIV.”
“I am grateful to the Equality Forum for this award. I am grateful to the LGBTQ community for allowing me throughout these many years to become part of your struggle and I am deeply honored to be part of your history,” he added.
Revising history
The event also served to kick off “LGBT History Month” honoring 31 “LGBT Icons,” one per day in October. This year, Equality Forum named President Abraham Lincoln as one of its icons.
For decades, revisionist historians have desperately sought to claim Lincoln as being homosexual, just as they have David and Jonathan in the Old Testament, and Jesus and the young Apostle John in the New.
It seems we’re also witnessing in real time the revising of history when it comes to Dr. Fauci and his relationship with gay activists. Not that they’re claiming that he is one of them, but that they are sanitizing the history of their relationship with him.
In case you didn’t know, 40 or so years ago during the peak years of the AIDS epidemic, Fauci was hated by gays. Now they fawn over each other.
A searing criticism of Fauci penned by a prominent gay activist in 1988 as the ravages of AIDS remained in high gear began, “I have been screaming at the National Institutes of Health since I first visited your Animal House of Horrors in 1984. I called you monsters then … and now I call you murderers.”
It went downhill from there:
You are responsible for supervising all government-funded AIDS treatment research programs. In the name of right, you make decisions that cost the lives of others. I call that murder.
At hearings on April 29 before Representative Ted Weiss and his House Subcommittee on Human Resources, after almost eight years of the worst epidemic in modern history, perhaps to be the worst in all history, you were pummeled into admitting publicly what some of us have been claiming since you took over three years ago.
You admitted that you are an incompetent idiot.
Larry Kramer, who composed the open letter, was an accomplished playwright and author who became the nation’s most strident voice calling out both the apathy of gay men toward the roaring crisis and the glacial pace of the Fauci-run National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease’s response. Kramer co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in order to mobilize resources to effectively deal with the scourge.
Kramer’s 1988 missive continued:
The gay community has, for five years, told the NIH which drugs to test because we know and hear first what is working on some of us somewhere. You couldn’t care less about what we say. You won’t answer our phone calls or letters, or listen to anyone in our stricken community. What tragic pomposity!
Perhaps motivated by fear of again being called homophobic, Fauci went easier on gays than almost anyone else during the early days of the strict COVID lockdowns, granting them carte blanche to continue with anonymous Grindr or otherwise casual sex hookups.
Late last year, I witnessed the ease with which the gay and gay-adjacent world was willing to forgive and forget the harm that Fauci had caused them.
Though he has denied his role, Fauci appeared to favor the lockdowns across the United States that trapped people in their homes and brought the economy to a screeching halt.
The “stay-at-home orders” were unprecedented burdens on civil liberties. Thanks to Fauci, the United States effectively existed for well over a year under martial law.
One of the many hardest-hit industries was the world of live stage productions. Theatres were forced to go dark for two years.
A few days after this past Christmas, I attended a stage production of the Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!” at a suburban theater just outside Washington, D.C.
This same theatre had not so long ago sponsored a Drag Queen Story Hour at a local public library.
During intermission, I heard an eerily familiar voice over my right shoulder in the row behind me. I turned to see who was speaking and, sure enough, it was Fauci.
In my mind, I imagined that if they had known he was there, the cast and crew would have pelted him with rotten tomatoes and rolled up playbills for having killed their livelihoods and crushed their dreams for so long.
Instead, in an incredibly ironic, un-self-aware move, the theater posted a photo on social media of Fauci posing with the “Hello, Dolly!” cast and musicians, proclaiming they were honored to welcome him to their performance despite the fact that he was ultimately responsible for shutting down their theater and ravaging their industry.
John Patrick is a guest contributor to LifeSiteNews.