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Stewart Landers, JD, MCP, Associate Editor, Senior Consultant

John Snow, Inc, Boston, Mass

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For the baby boomers who lived through big events—the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, Watergate—and who witnessed or participated in the progress of various liberation movements—civil rights, women’s liberation, and gay rights—the June 1981 report of the first mysterious illnesses among homosexual men did not register as a seismic event. Even to most gay men, this ominous report was a far-off drumbeat, alarming yet distant. The tsunami of death that was about to envelop the gay community did not appear likely to affect anyone outside this relatively small, effectively marginalized group. How wrong! HIV soon spread anywhere and everywhere that . . . [Full Text]