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  • Collection: A Public Health Crisis

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Initially ignored by mainstream America, gay people in every major city created a parallel system of volunteer-run service organizations to supply care, information, and referrals to those with AIDS.

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Initially ignored by mainstream America, gay people in every major city created a parallel system of volunteer-run service organizations to supply care, information, and referrals to those with AIDS.

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Health care workers needed specific information about ways to protect themselves from infection.

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In 1987, the Centers for Disease Control launched a broad campaign to explain modes of transmission, risk, and behavior.

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A man who has Kaposi’s sarcoma, an early manifestation of AIDS, describing his swollen lymph glands to health workers in a San Francisco clinic, 1983 Mickey Pfleger, photographer

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Condoms came into fashion because they offered protection against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

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The Gay Men’s Health Crisis distributed explicit material such as this 1982 brochure.

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Public health fotonovelas such as this 1989 booklet were adapted from a publication format already popular among Latinos.

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Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz, gay men infected with the virus, wrote this 1983 sex-positive guide.

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Surgeon General C. Everett Koop presented the government’s position on the epidemic in 1986 with straightforward and frank medical information.
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