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Speaker 1: In the late nineteen seventies and eighties, New York City

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Speaker 1: could be a dangerous place.

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Speaker 2: People just started like disappearing, like one day they were

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Speaker 2: then the next day they were gone, Like where did

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Speaker 2: they go?

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Speaker 3: If you're New York plague by violence, drugs, and polity.

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Speaker 4: He said that people had the monster because they had

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Speaker 4: that look.

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Speaker 1: Misinformation and disinformation about HIV AIDS was common.

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Speaker 5: They said it was only gay men that could get it.

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Speaker 5: So I said, well, I'm not a gay man, so

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Speaker 5: how would I get it?

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Speaker 1: I'm ki write our understanding of the history of HIV

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Speaker 1: AIDS and who has been affected by it is incomplete.

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Speaker 6: We literally had to convince the federal government that there

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Speaker 6: were women getting HIV.

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Speaker 1: Blind Spot a plague in the shadows. Stories from the

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Speaker 1: early days of AIDS and the people who refused to

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Speaker 1: stay out of sight available January twenty twenty four.