Speaker 1: In the late nineteen seventies and eighties, New York City
Speaker 1: could be a dangerous place.
Speaker 2: People just started like disappearing, like one day they were
Speaker 2: then the next day they were gone, Like where did
Speaker 2: they go?
Speaker 3: If you're New York plague by violence, drugs, and polity.
Speaker 4: He said that people had the monster because they had
Speaker 4: that look.
Speaker 1: Misinformation and disinformation about HIV AIDS was common.
Speaker 5: They said it was only gay men that could get it.
Speaker 5: So I said, well, I'm not a gay man, so
Speaker 5: how would I get it?
Speaker 1: I'm ki write our understanding of the history of HIV
Speaker 1: AIDS and who has been affected by it is incomplete.
Speaker 6: We literally had to convince the federal government that there
Speaker 6: were women getting HIV.
Speaker 1: Blind Spot a plague in the shadows. Stories from the
Speaker 1: early days of AIDS and the people who refused to
Speaker 1: stay out of sight available January twenty twenty four.