![]() Largely abandoned by their government, these men and their allies mounted a social justice fight of epic dimensions and with enduring results. We've hidden the scourge of AIDS behind drug cocktails and prevention regimens, but in the 1980s and early 1990s the ravages of HIV/AIDS haunted Americans, particularly gay males in coastal urban centers. VIRAL tells the searing story of how that came to be.Īvailable as a program for teens and adults An HIV/AIDS diagnosis is no longer considered a death sentence in the United States. ![]() They organized and protested for recognition, for life-saving research funding, and for the basic civil rights of people with AIDS. In what turned out to be an era of denial, fear, and unimaginable loss, countless brave activists confronted this devastating syndrome. At its worst it killed more than fifty thousand Americans in a single year. At first, it mostly showed up in gay men-some of the most marginalized people in the United States at that time. There was no official name, no known cause, and no hope for a cure. ![]()
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