When #ChuckSchuldinerDiedOfAIDS, the entire death metal community came together to support research into this devastating disease. As the government cuts funding, it is time to raise our hands together for Chuck Schuldiner!
Under the Christian libertarian imperium of Donald J. Trump, government funding for scientific research has been cut, and while he has not targeted AIDS research specifically, it is inevitably suffering.
Chuck Schuldiner, who fronted the band Death, was not a perfect candidate for sainthood. He wrote in favor of eugenics (“Altering the Future” from Spiritual Healing), endorsed Republican Christianity at times, and had a tempestuous personal life.
However, as a proud member of the bisexual and furry communities, he was far from abnormal and deserved a long healthy life until it was stolen by the devastating autoimmune disease carried (sorry, RJKFKjr) by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
We in the metal community stand with Chuck Schuldiner and believe that his untimely passing from the AIDS epidemic should not be forgotten. The Republicans will not acknowledge him because he enjoyed lusty sex with multiple mature women as well as multiple young men. Their bigotry is their loss.
During our time, LGBTQIA+ people have suffered prejudice because of their sexual preferences, and Chuck Schuldiner suffered more than most in the anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, classist, sexist, chauvinist, ageist, and frequently racist metal community.
To keep Chuck’s memory alive and to honor his sacrifice, use the hashtag #ChuckSchuldinerDiedOfAIDS to keep awareness alive and consider giving to one of these HIV/AIDS charities today:
- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) develops next-generation HIV vaccines through a world-wide network of not-for-profit labs.
- The Foundation for AIDS Research invests money and grants in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care.
- AIDS resource alliance offers clinics, prevention, education, testing, and treatment connections for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Elton John AIDS Foundation generates support for education, activism, and healthcare options for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) encourages worldwide awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis and distributes aid worldwide.
- Frontline AIDS advocates for HIV prevention and scientific literacy, promoting human rights and holistic care.
- AIDS United fosters high-quality, comprehensive care and support services for HIV/AIDS patients and raises awareness, activism, and advocacy.
- The International AIDS Society convenes, educates and advocates for a world in which HIV no longer presents a threat to public health and individual well-being.
- Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria advocates to increase U.S. support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
- AIDS Healthcare Foundation offers activism, HIV testing and counseling, medical care, mental health services, legal and financial assistance, and education and prevention programs.
- The Black AIDS Institute aims to end HIV/AIDS in the Black community through prevention, testing, and treatment as well as anti-discrimination activism.
- The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) provides funding, education, and advocacy to the community fighting HIV/AIDS.
- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) harnesses the financial resources of the performing arts community to raise funds and awareness
- AIDS Access and Information Network (AIN) serves as a healthcare partner for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Dallas, TX area.
- Project Inform ensures people live with HIV/AIDS have access to the current medical care.
- Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) targets the epidemic in the LGBTQIA+ communities with services and advocacy.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Program (Ryan White Foundation) enables research in the area of HIV/AIDS medicine.
- Bailey House provides housing and support for people living with HIV/AIDS.
- San Francisco AIDS Foundation promotes antidiscrimination, health, wellness, and social justice through health and substance abuse services.
- AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) helps to achieve the ethical development of effective HIV prevention options and ensure access to those options.
- National Minority AIDS Council develops leadership in communities of color to address the challenges of HIV/AIDS.
Tags: AIDS, chuck schuldiner, chuck schuldiner died of AIDS, death, HIV+, LGBTQIA+
thats funny
There’s nothing funny about saving hundreds of millions of people from a worldwide epidemic, young man. No, what’s funny is war metal. It’s like using C4 to apply cheese to people.
AIDs is avoided by not having sex indiscriminately and with others who are likewise discriminate. The personality is the hard part to get attached to, and the subsequent decline and death of such personalities leads to a search for a higher meaning, and one must have passed “through sex” to see to the other side of the decline and death of those ones so being, sexed, in sex and out of sex, so above sex.
https://www.anus.com/metal/about/metal/chuck_schuldiner/ – Beginning of the penultimate paragraph. Might be how the whole thing started.
Looking on the bright side, that’s the best list of AIDS charities I have ever seen.
Links are gay, but this one is useful:
https://lgbtdatabase.com/
I didn’t get this until I realized that the pride parade is going on now (which I didn’t realize until I saw those flags everywhere).
Two questions:
1. Did Chuck Schuldiner actually die of aids, or did he just have sex with men?
2. Did Chuck Schuldiner truly have sex with men and is that truly a real photograph of him having sex with men?
In any case his music is all right
That’s four questions.
I know this is a joke, but those charities are not, and to them I say: Just don’t fuck around and this isn’t a problem.
If two or more people only have sex with each other, then they will not get aids. It’s that simple
I tend to think of things as having essential/eternal natures and destinies, and so, …asking young gay men not to fuck around is probably like asking a dog not to hunt. Sorry. AIDS sucks. So did Chuck “Jews for Jesus” Schuldiner.
Whether they are capable or incapable of choosing to not get aids, charity for this is a waste of money.
If they are capable, then that’s the solution, no free gibs needed.
If they are in capable, then it’s an eternal problem that no amount of free money will solve, unless we lock them up or force chastity belts on to them, which they don’t want and which I don’t want to do.
Just let nature take its course in this case
…that’s a solid point.
I am aware that there is medicine to treat (not cure) aids, but if you’re getting aids without getting raped or taking a bath after someone infected or some such shit, if you’re actually just fucking around like most of these fuckers, then brother, you have to pay for that shit yourself.
Or the people who like to engage in such behavior can collectively pay for each other if they want. Their lust shouldn’t be a burden on everyone else
Why should anyone pay for anyone else’s health care? Charity is voluntary, state taxation and subsidies are an invitation to parasitism!
Whatever you subsidize, you get more of.
Subsidize disease and, …oh look… a whole society full of people who are mentally and physically ill.
I’ll pay to help out people and things that I like, for the reason of its own sake.
Like you said: You get what you subsidize
It’s our one vote: feet/wallet.
I still like Scream Bloody Gore (8/10), got it remastered too.
Don’t care about the rest.
Everyone is an eugenicist fascist in some form, meaning “I like stuff that’s like me”.
But since I think everyone is annoying, you can all go to hell regardless of background.
In private, and in their buying choices, this seems so.
We need a National Day of Death, celebrating everything that is wrong, come one, that’s satanic! You can do it!
As long as you listen to Scream Bloody Gore only of course, everything else would be blasphemy… blasphemy… blasphemy… get it?
A national day of eugenic purges might be kind of cool…
When does metal gets its own pride month? Absurd really it is that it does not already yet have this.
It is pick-your-poison time:
a) Reincarnate as Chuck Schuldiner (with his uncontrollable sodomatic urges included)
b) Ireland becomes the superpower of Europe
c) Pass a kidney stone
#C is the easy option. Oof!
Oh let’s amp up the cursed choices then:
A) Have a P.Diddy type reputation or worse
B) Permanent plant-like conscious paralysis
C) Down Syndrome
I have to go with #A
At least that way I can sell tshirts
Alright, to round the horrorshow up, every time you try to watch a movie or show, you will always forever magically see one of the following picks instead:
A) Schindler’s List
B) The Room
C) Brokeback mountain
Truly dark. I’d have to go with #B because it looks like a train wreck. I thought “Brokeback Mountain” was sort of sweet, like a clumsy love affair, just not my thing (I avoid cowboy movies).
I would go with Schindler’s List.
I appreciate good comedy.
I must be gay with HIV and bad taste to boot because I seem to enjoy a lot of post-Spiritual Healing stuff by Death. The lyrics are sophomoric angst but as heavy metal goes, some of the stuff Schudiner wrote was anthemic and riffy in the best traditions of the genre. Not a fan of the incessant tempo changes he felt compelled to throw in because that was his trademark. With Control Denied I think he would’ve eventually made a good, streamlined heavy metal album. RIP Tim Aymar too.
I’m going to give you the cliche of the year: listen to what you like. Listen to lil wayne on miley-steroids with salsa cocaine sprinkled on top for all I care.
The metal way to go is to continually never fit in – “there is no us”. You’re at a gore-grind show? Wear a Cradle shirt. You’re at a Cradle show? Wear a gore-grind shirt etc.
God I hate chuck schuldiner, the biggest hack in Metal. Some people have a gall to say that Death Metal was named after Death. What a nerve. I will always proudly proclaim that chuck died of aids.
The media loves him because he led death metal back toward normie music.
Symbolic isn’t a bad album if you ignore the lyrics and accept that it’s heavy metal made by a homosexual, like Judas Priest.
I could appreciate Death in the same way I could enjoy Metallica or Iron Maiden, but in the long term, I ended up preferring Massacre for being more “death metal” in spirit. Judas Priest is great, very creative band, like Maiden had a lot of hidden prog in there.