[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

AIDS got it’s big break out in the US back around 1980 when someone brought it in from Africa, Spread it through a big homo orgy on Fire Island, NY, then it spread all across the US. The Homos had no cure for it so managed to infect the clean people to get the US to work on a cure. Bill Clinton’s Prison system had a huge outbreak in which the prisoners gave blood that caused problems with the Blood Bank, infecting normal people who needed operations and hemophiliacs at that time.
Since AIDS was endemic to the Apes in Africa I will not ask how it was spread to humans.

[PGR88]

AIDS got it’s big break out in the US back around 1980 when someone brought it in from Africa,

Wasn't it traced back to some queer French-Canadian air steward who flew back and forth between Canada, France and West Africa?

[Verginius Rufus]

The Red Cross used to use 1977 as the date, asking men who wanted to donate if they had had sex with another man at any time since 1977. Of course that was before they loosened up their rules.

I think it was in 1981 that I first read a newspaper story about AIDS. By 1983 it was big news (and of course blamed on Ronald Reagan).

There was an isolated case in St. Louis in the late 1960s of a black teenager with a mysterious disease. The doctors were mystified by it so kept a vial of his blood. After AIDS started to appear they discovered that he had had AIDS.

[fwdude]

I can remember “patient zero,” who was not ashamed to willingly own up to the notoriety of spreading AIDS to queers in America. He was a flight attendant, and slept around with numerous anonymous partners in his exploits around the country. It’s like cancer that has spread to the lymph node, it has an expressway to spread to the whole body.