During the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, government inaction and widespread stigma allowed a deadly crisis to worsen.

I remember the gnaw of my unfounded fears the first time I hugged someone with HIV. We lived in Los Angeles in the 1980s. The City of Angels was one of many ground zeroes as the HIV/AIDS epidemic was ...

A Canadian flight attendant, Gaëtan Dugas, was wrongly blamed as 'Patient Zero' for the AIDS epidemic. This damaging myth ...

At CBS and ABC, he pursued news segments aimed at destigmatizing gay life and drawing attention to an epidemic that at the time was largely overlooked. By Miguel Salazar Joseph Lovett, a broadcast ...