I put two and two together.
They kept getting sicker and sicker and doctors had no idea what was going on with them.
I worked one mile from LAX with one of them, Patient Zero of the current AIDS epidemic was a male flight attendant Hell bent on spreading his mystery ailment.
The other I knew from my church in Hollywood, I don’t think the chain of contagion from Gaetan Dugas at LAX to Santa Monica Blvd is very long.
One gay bar away, pretty much.
Wow, you knew Dugas? That’s freaky. I’ve read “And The Band Played On” by Randy Shilts, who also died of AIDS. He told a sordid tale of Dugas’ behavior.