"Something was killing people. We’d see 25-year-old handsome young men waste down to where they looked 95. It was like the walking dead, and there was so much of it … We’d spent so much effort building the gay community, and we thought it all would disappear."
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Kenneth Bunch on the Reagans’ troubling Aids legacy.
As the nation mourns the former first lady’s death, those on the frontline of the 1980s Aids crisis remember something else: a couple who turned a blind eye.
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(Source: theguardian.com, via leescoresbies)
