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Part One: ACT UP: How Angry, Dying Queers Invented Modern Activism

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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Early Days of the AIDS Epidemic

The chapter delves into the early days of the AIDS epidemic, exploring the groups affected, the CDC's naming of the disease, theories about its cause, and the emergence of AIDS activism with the publication of a groundbreaking safer sex guide in 1983.

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