Being the skunk at the ‘Celebrate George Bush’ party.

President George Bush fulfilled a 1988 campaign pledge by signing the landmark Americans With Disabilities Act, which forbid discrimination against people living with AIDS, in July 1990. (Credit Barry Thumma/Associated Press)

The death of George Bush on the eve of World AIDS Day was a painful reminder for some of the most lethal days of the epidemic, when people — predominantly gay and bisexual — were struck down by an illness that few…