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Reporting and Reactions From Forty Years Ago: Part III
Posted on June 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

By the end of 1981, both Time and Newsweek had joined the mainstream papers in publishing cursory stories on the epidemic, but much of the credit for keeping gay cancer in the headlines lay with a small handful in the gay media who, often against the wishes of their publishers and advertisers, insisted on keeping it there.