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On This Gay Day | In 1981 the first mainstream media report about AIDS was published

Summary by OUTInPerth | LGBTQIA+ News and Culture
In 1981 the New York Times ran the first article in the mainstream media that covered that would later be recognised as HIV/AIDS. On the 18th May 1981 a news article has been published in the gay press, and on 5th June 1981 the US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention published a notice about gay men who had died rare, and usually curable diseases. News broke in the mainstream media on July 3rd 1981 with an article titled Rare Cancer Seen in…
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OUTInPerth | LGBTQIA+ News and Culture broke the news in on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.
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