World AIDS Day: ‘Gay plague’ – how media reported AIDS crisis.

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Anti-gay headlines in the UK tabloid press during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. (News of the World/The Sun/The Mail on Sunday/Rivers Oram Press)

In the 1980s, the AIDS crisis hit the UK, killing thousands and disproportionately claiming the lives of young men in the gay community. PinkNews looks at headlines from the 1980s as we mark the 30th anniversary of World AIDS Day on…