Robert Dean Lurie

The following year, French philosopher Michel Foucault died of the illness in Paris

In the early ’80s, as a 22-year-old queer man living during the ­Reagan-Bush administration, I was afraid to get tested for HIV for fear of quarantine, the threat of internment camps, and having my basic civil rights stripped away

Koop took the unprecedented step of mailing every household in America an information packet on the disease that advocated the use of condoms as the single best measure for avoiding infection