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Bay Area Reporter :: B.A.R. covers HIV and AIDS for 40 years


AIDS first came to the world s attention with a June 5, 1981, report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) among young gay men in Los Angeles. A second report on cases of PCP and Kaposi sarcoma in New York City and California followed a month later.
The disease that would come to be known as AIDS was first mentioned in the Bay Area Reporter in a July 2 Health Shorts column about Gay Men s Pneumonia potentially linked to poppers buried on page 34.
Dr. Robert Boland s gay health column in the August 13 issue was headlined New Bugs . No Alarm. Boland suggested Kaposi sarcoma (KS) and PCP might be linked to cytomegalovirus, a virus in the herpes family. No one knows what these new bugs have to do with gay life, he wrote. This is a truly hot issue and a number of eager researchers are involved. . Stay tuned for developments. ....

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Bay Area Reporter :: Go West: How the B.A.R. brought me to California and halfway around the world, twice


With more than 900 articles penned for the
Bay Area Reporter, I feel a strong connection as the newspaper celebrates its 50th anniversary this week. I ve written columns, listings and reviews since 1992. Having assigned and edited the expansive features in this section, I thought to share some behind the scenes tales as well.
My career in journalism started in 1989 in New York City with
OutWeek, the revolutionary weekly publication that emerged from ACT UP, Queer Nation, but didn t last long.
After a 1990 visit for the OutWrite literary festival, my second working visit to San Francisco was in early 1992, on a freelance assignment for ....

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