80s Quote by Sean Strub

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It…

— Leslie Jordan

AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

— Edmund White

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived…

— Peter Lewis Allen

In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent…

— Elizabeth Flock

Now people with HIV are no longer dying, but living many years - we are around longer to potentially affect others.

— Sean Strub

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was…

— Annie Lennox

The general population still thinks HIV is something that came in the 80s and went away, or that it only affects the gay population…

— Annie Lennox

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and…

— Forrest Griffin

One of the patients that really stands out for me was a middle-aged woman who actually had HIV in the early days, and helping…

— Jill Stein

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

— Sam Kinison

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it,…

— Elton John

It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both…

— Hillary Clinton