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This summer, the New York Historical
Society will mount an exhibition titled “AIDS in New York: The First Five
Years,” which will focus on the early years of AIDS in New York City. Comprised
of diaries, ephemera such as clinician’s notes and photographs, and both audio
and video clips, the exhibition will examine the impact of the disease from the
first days of rumors of a “gay plague” in 1981 through 1986.
Curator Jean S. Ashton explains that
for many today these early years are a nearly forgotten historical period,
although the advent of the disease “changed paradigms in medicine, society,
politics, and culture in ways that are still being felt.”
The exhibition will be shown June 7
through September 15, and will precede a show to be mounted at the New York
Public Library titled “Why We Fight: AIDS Activism and American Culture,” which
is scheduled for October 4, 2013 through April 6, 2014.
For further information on the New
York Historical Society exhibition, visit www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/future-exhibitions.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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