Forty years ago today on July 3rd. 1981, The New York Tim’s published 's first article about AIDS headled: “Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals.” (“Gay”…
Contents:
- REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
- MYSTERY DISEASE KILLS GAY MEN – ARCHIVE, 1981
- GAY HISTORY – JULY 3, 1981: NEW YORK TIM PUBLISH “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS” [ARTICLE INCLUD]
- GAY HISTORY – MAY 18, 1981: DR. LAWRENCE MASS BE THE FIRST PERSON TO REPORT ABOUT AIDS.
- 38 YEARS AGO TODAY ‘THE NEW YORK TIM’ FIRST REPORTED ON A RARE GAY CANCER LATER KNOWN AS AIDS
REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis. He says that back 1981 and '82, before AIDS was lled AIDS, was lled "gay ncer." At the time, ncer was the most dread disease the Uned Stat. But for some of the men who had the myster new illns, llg "ncer" was a form of hope. Joe Wright is a stunt at Harvard Medil School. * gay cancer 1981 *
Doctors New York and California have diagnosed among homosexual men 41 s of a rare and often rapidly fatal form of ncer.
MYSTERY DISEASE KILLS GAY MEN – ARCHIVE, 1981
The summer of 1981 saw the first media reports about myster diseas gay men. What did they get right — and wrong? * gay cancer 1981 *
But the doctors who have ma the diagnos, mostly New York Cy and the San Francis Bay area, are alertg other physicians who treat large numbers of homosexual men to the problem an effort to help intify more s and to rce the lay offerg chemotherapy sudn appearance of the ncer, lled Kaposi's Sara, has prompted a medil vtigatn that experts say uld have as much scientific as public health importance bee of what may teach about termg the of more mon typ of ncer.
GAY HISTORY – JULY 3, 1981: NEW YORK TIM PUBLISH “RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS” [ARTICLE INCLUD]
* gay cancer 1981 *
But the recent s, doctors at ne medil centers New York and seven hospals California have been diagnosg the ndn among younger men, all of whom said the urse of standard diagnostic terviews that they were homosexual. Friedman-Kien, the reportg doctors said that most s had volved homosexual men who have had multiple and equent sexual enunters wh different partners, as many as 10 sexual enunters each night up to four tim a of the patients have also been treated for viral fectns such as herp, cytomegalovis and hepatis B as well as parasic fectns such as amebiasis and giardiasis. ''The bt evince agast ntagn, '' he said, ''is that no s have been reported to date outsi the homosexual muny or women.
GAY HISTORY – MAY 18, 1981: DR. LAWRENCE MASS BE THE FIRST PERSON TO REPORT ABOUT AIDS.
HIV and the syndrome , AIDS, began spreadg the Uned Stat the early 1980s. By the late 1980s had bee a public health crisis. Inially the U.S. ernment did ltle to addrs the epimic, due part to misnceptns that the disease only affected gay men. Activists me together to mand a rponse om the ernment and the ternatnal muny. By the mid-1990s, HIV/AIDS numbers were on the cle Ameri. Today, lns of people around the world are livg wh HIV and tens of thoands of people die of AIDS-related illns every year. * gay cancer 1981 *
A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 20 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS.
38 YEARS AGO TODAY ‘THE NEW YORK TIM’ FIRST REPORTED ON A RARE GAY CANCER LATER KNOWN AS AIDS
Rememberg the Early Days of 'Gay Cancer' Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis.