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![fantasyamazon but the only reason we all still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us [id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, "but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us."] begging queer kids to read up on princess diana's involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young. but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status. diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it's kind in the uk). she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness. and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on "something more pleasant"? diana ignored her and kept fighting. and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she's known and loved as the people's princess for good reason x-cetra Diana also literally walked across a minefield (through a lane cleared by the humanitarian organization HALO Trust, which she was promoting, but there was still some risk). She used the paparazzi who always followed her around to raise awareness of the plight of landmine victims in Angola, met with survivors who still talk about her visit, advocated on their behalf to the UN, and then went to other places suffering the same problem. PERIGO MINAS! # 0 CAINLE PERIGO MINAS Her advocacy was instrumental in helping push forward a treaty to ban the use, production, and export of land mines. She was attacked by British politicians for meddling in government policy, but the Ottawa Treaty was signed by 122 countries including the UK three months after her death. One of the anti-landmine groups in which she'd been involved received the Nobel Peace Prize. BC NEWS Diana's support was 'turning point' in landmine ban effort MINAS BBC NEWS HALO TRUST The princess's backing brought the campaign wider attention, says the I remember the photos of her holding hands with dying them like fellow AIDS patients, of her sitting by them and listening to human beings, at a time when tolerance was radical and most people feared AIDS was transmissible by touch. I also remember her holding HIV-positive babies, when most people were paranoid about fluids from AIDS patients and let's face it, babies leak. (There was a brutal subtext to criticism of Diana's AIDS work: was she neglecting, even endangering, the throne?) heir(s) to the Like But she Carrie Fisher, Diana wasn't a perfect human being. indeed use her privilege to advocate for and of those with none. did amplify the voices 40,467 notes Sep 12th, 2022](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/002/459/602/4f7.jpg "Diana, the People's Princess | /r/wholesomememes")
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