Since you brought in the tax issue, I was left
Didn't know I was mean to you, if so my appologies. I also lost a very good friend to AIDS if you must know. About Reagan, he could have done something like "go public?" It would have helped a great deal.
A simple public conference where he would announce the nation that this desease is transmittable sexually and by blood like so many hemophiles contracted due to bad screening of blood. He could have gone public backing up the CDC on their evidence. He did not and this is his other legacy.
Maybe this is why the HBO movie And the band played on was a favorite of the gay community over here, I found it very informative.