New York Tim staffers reflect on the paper’s checkered past verg AIDS and gay culture — and what we n learn om today.
Contents:
- REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
- A LOOK BACK AT THE YEAR A RARE CANCER WAS FIRST SEEN GAY MEN
- SIX TIM JOURNALISTS ON THE PAPER’S HISTORY OF COVERG AIDS AND GAY ISSU
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 kaposi *
Rememberg the Early Days of 'Gay Cancer' Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis.
A LOOK BACK AT THE YEAR A RARE CANCER WAS FIRST SEEN GAY MEN
The summer of 1981 saw the first media reports about myster diseas gay men. What did they get right — and wrong? * gay cancer kaposi *
He says that back 1981 and '82, before AIDS was lled AIDS, was lled "gay ncer.
SIX TIM JOURNALISTS ON THE PAPER’S HISTORY OF COVERG AIDS AND GAY ISSU
I was one of those physicians providg re to gay men New York Cy when AIDS first me to attentn. * gay cancer kaposi *
And bee the first people diagnosed wh the new syndrome were gay men, some people started llg the disease Gay Cancer. But lots of people the media and the gay muny still lled Gay Cancer until the later part of 1982.