He was the hero San Francisco deserved. And with his bleach-jug head, crimson cape and comically oversized needle, Bleachman might just be the one it needs right now. In the late 1980s, the San ...
If you looked to the 1980s for representation of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on mainstream screens anywhere, you’d be staring into a void. Hollywood, much like the reigning political administration of the ...
SAN FRANCISO (KTVU) - The AIDS crisis swept through United States in the early 1980s. But the epicenter of that deadly epidemic was San Francisco. Cleve Jones was there at the beginning when a ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The similarities are eerie. The year was 1983 and sanitation workers who were picking up garbage after that year's Pride Parade wore face masks out of fear they could contract a ...
In the 1980s, gay men were ravaged by AIDS, with the disease quickly spreading to other minority groups across the globe. The horror of the disease brought with it a fiercer, angrier, more urgent ...
As KING 5 marks 70 years of broadcasting, we look back on a time when rumors and myths were swirling around a frightening new virus, which was killing people. Some newsrooms were reluctant to talk ...
When the HIV/AIDS crisis emerged in Maine three decades ago, many residents didn’t realize it was a problem. “People in Maine, whether they were queer or not, viewed themselves as immune and separate ...
Based in Philadelphia, Dope Shows has become some of the most prolific independent show promoters in the nation. 3 days ago During the monologue, Chappelle addressed Donald Trump contracting covid-19, ...
In the early 1990s, Welsh writer and television producer Russell T Davies heard the same story from many families about their experiences in earlier years: parents who arrived at AIDS wards at British ...
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said this week the nation's top health official "overhyped" the threat of AIDS during the 1980s, stunning activists who described a terrifying decade when tens of thousands of ...