Rainbow History Project : AIDS in DC

AIDS in D.C.

Rainbow History Project has assembled a number of resources focusing on AIDS in metropolitan Washington, DC. AIDS devastated the local GLBT community and sparked a second revolution of activism in the second half of the 1980s as the community struggled in the face of indifference, hostility, and underfunding to take care of its own and bury its own. Though the city government was more supportive than most other city and state governments of the time, DC's GLBT community still struggled to first understand, then respond to, epidemic in its midst.

Resources on AIDS in DC:

Waking Up to AIDS - a chronology of 1981 to 1985 covering the community's awakening response to AIDS
The Timeline of AIDS History in DC
Those we have lost: Rainbow History has compiled a list of those whose published cause of death is AIDS or AIDS-related complications. The list covers 1983 through the present. For the chronological list click here. For the alphabetical list click here.
ACT UP DC distributed the New York group's flyer about word choice in the fight against AIDS.

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