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HOW THE EARLY ’80S CHANGED GAY WRG FOREVER
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Three years later, 1981, the first report of Gay-Related Immune Deficiency AIDS epimic didn’t mean the end of dancg, or sex, or dgs.
Gay people and traveno dg ers — those most at risk at the time — had been emed dilemma of the self-hatg homo lookg for love all the wrong plac paled — paled for some of — the face of a plague about which no one power seemed to give a damn.