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AIDS and Los Angeles Theatre by Julio Martinez

by Julio Martinez The AIDS virus was not readily apparent to the Los Angele theater community in the early 1980s. On June 5, 1981, UCLA-based immunologist Dr. Michael Gottlieb published a report put out by the Centers for Disease Control, noting the unusual cases of five men who had contracted a form of pneumonia normally found only in those with severely weakened immune systems. The report was the first official no…

SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:54PM on July 23, 2018

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