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Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis: Chapter 1: Buried Headline

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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I Don't Write to Bob, He Didn't Read to Me.

In those forty one homosexuals, capasi sarcoma is not so rare any more. The infections associated with this mysterious newgate disease have grown to include a terrifying list of ailments. If i had been infected, i could be a ticking time bomb, pre symptomatic, but in the meantime, infecting others for years before i got sick and died,. But we didn't know any of that then. I did know i was scared. It had been months since i'd had sex with bob, and i was fine. What i didn't yet know, what none of us yet knew,what even the doctors and scientists didn't know, was that the virus that caused aids would hide

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