The early years of AIDS in the USA were searing. Unforgettable if you survived them, fatal for so many who did not. Activism was a requirement of the time. The Stonewall uprising—the riotous start to the modern movement for gay rights—erupted in the New York City summer of 1969. The first reports of the new disease killing gay men broke in the press just 12 years later, in June, 1981. In the intervening years, gay communities in cities like New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles had grown strong and outspoken.
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