The San Francisco government tried to shut down the bathhouses in 1984 because they were widely recognized as the biggest vector for HIV and the gay community responded by comparing this completely reasonable public health and safety measure to the Holocaust
Formerly known as AIDS patient zero, GaΓ«tan Dugas would have anonymous sex in the dark, turn on the lights, show his partner his sores (kaposi sarcomas), and say "I have gay cancer. I'm going to die and so are you."
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Dugas was asked by doctors numerous times to stop having unprotected sex with strangers, even after the transmission method was proven, but refused
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