Set more than 30 years ago during the early days of the AIDS crisis, “The Normal Heart” still has impact. It’s only fitting that San Francisco’s Theatre Rhinoceros, self-described as the world’s ...

(THE CONVERSATION) First it was referred to as a “mysterious illness.” Later it was called “gay cancer,” “gay plague” and “GRID,” an acronym for gay-related immune deficiency. Most egregiously, some ...

The Bay Area Reporter first mentioned what became HIV/AIDS about a month after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's notice on June 5, 1981. But that fall, in the paper's September ...

In mid-1981 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control noticed a set of medical curiosities: an alert from Los Angeles that five previously healthy young men had come down with a rare, fatal lung infection; ...

In 1981, most Americans were oblivious to an emerging sickness that was overtaking gays. Throughout the spring and summer that year, a mystery would slowly unfold in U.S. metropolitan areas. It was ...

The photograph shows 115 members of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus with their backs turned to the camera, representing the former members of the choir who have died of HIV/AIDS, with seven ...

(WBNG) -- It’s sure to be an evening of laughs! The Southern Tier AIDS Program is set to host an upcoming fundraiser featuring Miss Richfield in 1981. “Bad Advice” with Miss Richfield 1981 is set to ...