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FLASHBACK 1988: Just try getting AIDS information without playing politics.
Well, the enemy is real for both homosexuals and heterosexuals, despite the reluctance of the mayor to violate simpleminded community queasiness about looking the enemy right in the face and telling folks that it has to do with unsafe sex practices.
In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all.
Title: The Quiet Killer: AIDS Author: Richard Barnum-Reece Date: August, 1988 It was, the mayor's press secretary will tell you, much ado about nothing. The daily press, that roving wolf pack, hot on the warm blood of a good story, were turning the city upside down.
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