“When AIDS was first detected in 1981, there wasn’t much media attention; during the summer of 1983, when the fear arose that AIDS was going to spread rapidly into the straight community, there was an explosion in coverage. After the winter of 1983-1984, when, once again, it seemed the heterosexual population was safe, coverage diminished. Apparently as long as AIDS remained a threat principally to gays, the press was content to treat it as a minor story.”
–David Black, The Plague Years, 191
1980s Music Video Closet 