{"title":"AIDS Activism","authors":"Geoffrey W. Bateman","doi":"10.1163/9789004506725_004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that five young gay men in Los Angeles had been diagnosed with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). A few weeks later, it reported that another 26 gay men in New York City and San Francisco had been diagnosed with a rare cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Although unknown at the time, these rare diseases signaled the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.","PeriodicalId":204274,"journal":{"name":"Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Encyclopedia of Queer Studies in Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004506725_004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that five young gay men in Los Angeles had been diagnosed with pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP). A few weeks later, it reported that another 26 gay men in New York City and San Francisco had been diagnosed with a rare cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). Although unknown at the time, these rare diseases signaled the beginning of the AIDS epidemic.