First it was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Later it was called “gay cancer,” “gay plague” and “GRID,” an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some called it “4H ...
Alysia Abbott's memoir about growing up in 1970s San Francisco with her gay, single father, has been adapted into a film ...
In the 1980s, when government lagged in its response to the disease, he solicited private support for prevention and treatment. By Sam Roberts Michael Seltzer, whose bedside vigil for a friend who was ...
Prince Harry has joined Charlize Theron in a new AIDS campaign almost 40 years after princess Diana’s groundbreaking handshake with an AIDS patient. At the height of the HIV/Aids epidemic in the 1980s ...
Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ... in 1983; AIDS was also the subject of episodes in the sitcoms "Mr. Belvedere," "The Golden Girls" and "Designing Women." "Killing All the ...