“For years, several successive editions of a top-selling medical dictionary [Mosby’s Medical Dictionary] – a type of publication frequently considered to bear the ultimate imprimatus of authority – contained an entry for ‘Patient Zero’ which read: “an individual identified by … Continue reading →
On 30th June 1986 the United States Supreme Court handed down its judgement in the Bowers v Hardwick case. It found in favour of Georgia Attorney General Michael J. Bowers. In so doing it validated not only Georgia’s anti-sodomy … Continue reading →
Perry Watkins was 19-years old when he received his Army call-up papers in August 1967. It was the middle of the Vietnam War so, like to most other young American men, he didn’t want to go. Watkins had been openly … Continue reading →
I’ve written extensively in this blog and my book about the early days of HIV/AIDS. And with a new TV drama – It’s a Sin – currently playing in various countries, there’s been a renewed interest in that period. So … Continue reading →
On December 18th 1987, the UK’s BBC Two broadcast ‘Remember Terry’. It was a documentary about the life – and ultimate death – of Terry Madeley, one of the first people in the UK to go public about their AIDS … Continue reading →