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  2. HIV/AIDS in New York City - Wikipedia

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    The early history of the AIDS epidemic in New York City began with early rumors in 1981 of a "gay plague". Because AIDS first emerged among populations considered marginal by many mainstream residents of New York City, including prostitutes, drug users, and men who had sex with men, early responses to the disease were uneven and underfunded.

  3. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt ...

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    The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must ...

  4. The Normal Heart - Wikipedia

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    The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer.It focuses on the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group.

  5. HIV/AIDS in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States between the 1970s and 1980s, [2] but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

  6. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) is an American nonprofit organization that raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States, headquartered in New York City. It is the theatre community's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

  7. Art of the AIDS Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The AIDS pandemic began in the early 1980s and brought with it a surge of emotions from the public: they were afraid, angry, fearful and defiant. The arrival of AIDS also brought with it a condemnation of the LGBT community. These emotions, along with the view on the LGBT community, paved the way for a new generation of artists. [1]

  8. Gordon Stevenson - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Stevenson in 1978 on the back cover of the album No New York poster for Gordon Stevenson's 1980 no wave film Ecstatic Stigmatic: the film with a disease. Gordon Stevenson was an artist, actor, musician and filmmaker who died of AIDS in 1982, [1] one of the East Village art community’s first casualties of the AIDS epidemic.

  9. In "Los Frikis," set in early 1990s Cuba, hundreds of young, disenfranchised Cubans inject themselves with HIV during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, hoping to escape political repression by ...