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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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The First Time I Heard About Aids

Dug has no memory of reading about forty one homosexuals or the rare cancer. He does not yevet ave a clear picture in his mind that new york times article. Both Dug and i were pretty naive and not connected enough to any of the city's various gay communities to know more. The evidence seems to suggest that what i read in that first article had no direct impact on my life. I didn't have ten sexual partners, four nights a week that summer. So it's 19 81. Were you dating? Were you seeing people, and how ere you meeting them? Summer of 81, i don't think i met any one.

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