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Coming of Age During the AIDS Crisis: Chapter 4: Complications of AIDS

Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive

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Is It Safe to Get a Test for Aids?

The test for h i v, the virus that caused aids, had been available since march 19 85. But baron hid decided not to take it because there was no treatment. The safest thing to do is just assume you r ae ibe positive and behave accordingly. And given what was in on around us, all of us could have been dead. We didn't get tested until 88 a.m., but we were actually almost too terrified to touch each other.

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