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In response to "And the Band Played On is a great biography of those early days of AIDS. -- nm" by peglegpete

I can remember in 1989 just beginning to hear about this disease that killed gay people.

Posted by groinzerker (aka groiny) Sep 19 '12, 14:38

we really had no clue.

Where did one get it, how did one get it? Maybe it was my school (it sucked, no doubt) but they did not talk about it at all in class.

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I know we talked about it a lot in college (starting in 1986) so it was out earlier. Guess it wasn't general knowledge yet. -- nm - loosilu Sep 19, 14:40 3
- well, I would hope your college was in more tune with it than my Public High School was. nm -- nm - groinzerker Sep 19, 14:43 2
  - I was also a biology major so we had to be. -- nm - loosilu Sep 19, 14:44 1
    - ...but I'm pretty sure we didn't talk about it in HS. My school was as bad as any public school - loosilu Sep 19, 14:44

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I can remember in 1989 just beginning to hear about this disease that killed gay people.

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