Post On What It Was Like To Be Gay In The '80s Trying To Survive The AIDS Epidemic Goes Viral

Tucker Shaw, editor of Cook’s Country magazine, recently shared a?powerful series of tweets recalling the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. The epidemic had begun in mid-1970s itself, with the virus spreading out to North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia by 1980 and infecting an estimated 1,00,000-3,00,000 people.

Shaw narrates the incident inspired by two young men he overheard on the subway talking about the crisis in what Shaw describes as “a scholarly way.”

Shaw wrote: “I overheard a young man on the train on the way home today, talking to another young man. Holding hands."

“In college, I guessed. About that age anyway. Much younger than I am."

“He was talking about AIDS, in a scholarly way. About how it had galvanised the gay community. How it had spurred change. Paved the way to make things better, in the long run.

“The long run.”

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