October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the ...

Marchers on the New York City Gay Pride march in 1983, as the AIDS epidemic hit frightening levels. Source: Getty Images "Rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals”, screamed the New York Times ...

Stonewall Inn Additions ‘And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic’ by Randy Shilts. Written by Randy Shilts—known in the ’80s as the first openly gay reporter for ...

At first it was a "rare cancer" reported in 1981 in The New York Times to have infected "41 homosexuals" in New York and California. By 1992, just over a decade later, AIDS had killed 200,000 ...

Between 1983 and 1992, the Blood Sisters hosted 12 blood drives, demonstrating sustained commitment for nearly a decade.

But 80 is a big one, his friends insisted between stories of his generosity, ... Breaux tested positive for HIV in 1985 in San Francisco, during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic, ...

As AIDS epidemic raged, a rogue Reagan official taught America the truth. Updated June 8, ... Follow-up surveys indicated that more than 80 percent of Americans read the mailer.

Things have changed so much over my 60 years, you know, from the point of the AIDS crisis in the ‘80s, to the idea of gay marriage, and then actually having gay marriage. Those things were just ...