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During the early days of the HIV epidemic, front-line medical professionals in San Francisco received death threats when they when they suggested that bathhouse
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
During the early days of the HIV epidemic, front-line medical professionals in San Francisco received death threats when they when they suggested that bathhouses voluntarily close down, or at least turn up the lights so people could see if their partners were covered in KS sores.
You can read about their experience at the University of California San Francisco's AIDS Oral History Project: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/oral-history-project/ https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/oral-history-proj...
Death threats: https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt2m3n98v1;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=d0e3127&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e3127&brand=oac4 https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt2m3n98v1;NAAN=13030&doc.v...