Why Black AIDS History Matters

"...a focus on Black communities changes our timeline of AIDS in America. It starts for us not in 1981, when doctors began to see clusters of mysterious infections in (mostly white) gay men, but in 1969 with Robert Rayford, the first documented person with AIDS in the United States."

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Race, Homosexuality, and the AIDS Epidemic

"...small but determined number of Black gay AIDS activists have been sounding the alarm about AIDS in Black America—including among Black gay men in the South—for decades."

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"The Tuskegee Legacy: AIDS and the Black Community"

"Confronted with the experiment's moral bankruptcy, many blacks lost faith in the government and no  longer believed health officials who spoke on matters of public concern."

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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

"While some African American men who had sex with men faced ostracism and condemnation, the years of the epidemic also saw an unprecedented visibility of Black gay men’s organizing and culture."

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