A PBS “Independent Len” documentary, “We Were Here,” recalls the largely gay Castro District of San Francisco of the 1980s and chronicles the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Spencer ...

The display explores the rise of AIDS in the '80s and the evolving response to the epidemic over the last three decades. The exhibit is part of a traveling display offered by the National Library ...

He also drew a parallel to the AIDS outbreak of the ’80s, but stressed the homosexual community was “very educated and embraced HIV prevention.” That’s not the case with the opiate epidemic.

"Back then, we had that fear of using a towel or drinking out of the same glass." Here's a look back at the 1980s AIDS crisis and the eerie similarities with the current COVID-19 pandemic.

This Pride, we are remembering a community’s struggle with a different epidemic decades ago. Raised by gay parents, a man recalls how HIV AIDS was impacting people around him and how a group of ...

‘Normal Heart’ revisits mid-’80s AIDS epidemic By . Robert Rorke. Published May 20, 2014, 8:56 p.m. ET. Mark Ruffalo, left and Taylor Kitsch in "The Normal Heart." ...

AIDS at 30 Doane reported on "The Early Show" the play was written over a quarter-century ago, but the heartache, fear and frustration is just as real today. Taking place the early 1980s, "The ...

In the '80s, U.S. films and TV shows were slow to acknowledge the AIDS crisis. ... “Old white women would not perceive themselves as being involved in the AIDS epidemic.” ...

Set in London amid the AIDS epidemic in the '80s, the show hinges around five friends living together over a decade, from 1981 to 1991. Written by Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies ...

AIDS in the U.S. was first recognized among gay men in the 1980s. It couldn't have happened at a worse time. After a long struggle, American culture had finally begun to accept gay men.

Drug overdoses now kill about as many Americans per year as AIDS did in the late 80s and early 90s. As Julia Luria explains in a September 19 article for Mother Jones, that's largely a result of ...