Best of times and worst of times
Indeed, the 1980s were like that. They were a peak time for ‘gay’ and ‘community’. They were also the time that we got to understand the HIV epidemic, and by the end of the [...]
15 March 2018
15 March 2018
It came out of nowhere
No one knew what it was, what caused it, or how to deal with it. But it was a guaranteed killer. The first recorded case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in Australia was [...]
15 October 2015
A Long Road Forward
In those days, learning that you had contracted the ‘AIDS virus’ meant getting a death sentence.
