Washington: Jeff Levi, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force 4/85, 8/85, 2/86; Garry MacDonald, Federation of AIDS-Related Organizations 8/85; Don Michaels, publisher, Blade 2/86; Vic Basile, Human Rights Campaign Fund 2/86.

  Minneapolis: City Councilman Brian Coyle 4/84; State Senator Allan Spear 4/84; State Rep. Karen Clark 4/84.

  Boston: City Councilman David Scoundras, 4/84.

  Vancouver, British Columbia: Kevin Brown, PWA 3/86, Bob Tivey, AIDS Vancouver 3/86. Two friends of Gaetan Dugas consented to interviews only on the condition that their names not be used in the book.

  The chronology of Rock Hudson’s last days in Paris was drawn from contemporary news accounts, interviews, and the two biographies of the actor, Rock Hudson: His Story and Idol—Rock Hudson: The True Story of an American Film Hero.

  Counts on the number of media stories about AIDS in major newspapers and periodicals were based on a NEXIS analysis of AIDS coverage commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control.

  Excerpts from Matthew Krieger’s journal were taken directly from his diary and are used with his permission.

  Statistics on patterns of gay migration to San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 1980s are taken from the 1984 demographic study of the San Francisco gay community conducted by Research & Decisions Corporation and commissioned by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

  Historical information on San Francisco’s gay community is drawn largely from research for The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life & Times of Harvey Milk.

  Meteorological data used in this book was provided by Steve Newman of the Earth Environment Service in San Francisco.

  Blood Industry

  Dr. Joseph Bove 3/86; Dr. John Klok, Pacific Presbyterian Cancer Research Center 8/84; Brian McDonough, president, Irwin Memorial Blood Bank 3/85, 4/85, 3/86; Dr. Herb Perkins, med. dir. Irwin 8/84; Gerry Sohle, Los Angeles Red Cross Blood Services 8/84; Dr. Robert Huitt, exec. dir. Council for Community Blood Centers 8/84; Dr. Edgar Engleman, Stanford Medical Center Blood Bank 8/84, 10/85; Ruth Cordell, lab. mgr. Irwin 3/85; Ray Price, sales rep., Abbott Labs 3/85; Dr. J. Lawrence Naiman, dir. blood services, Santa Clara Red Cross 3/85; Robert and Cathy Borchelt 3/86; Borchelt family attorneys James Waite and Sarah Jane Burgess 3/86. Op. cit. Dritz, Evatt, Lawrence, Curran, Francis, Jaffe, Westmoreland and Brandt.

  Account of January 1983 policy meeting from interviews with participants as well as contemporary press releases and news accounts, most notably those of Philadelphia Inquirer, New York Native and “The Truth About AIDS.” General information and blood industry also was drawn from “Blood Policy & Technology,” a report from the Office of Technology Assessment (1985).

  The following were among tape-recorded interviews done for research on this book: Dr. Robert Gallo (4/19/86, Bethesda); Dr. Edward Brandt (2/6/85, Baltimore); Dr. Luc Montagnier (9/12/84 & 12/5/85, Paris); Dr. Willy Rozenbaum (9/13/84 & 12/3/85, Paris); Dr. Jean-Claude Chermann (9/12/84, Paris); Dr. Francoise Barre (12/6/85, Paris); Dr. Jacques Leibowitch (9/12/84 & 12/5/85); Dr. Francoise Brun-Vezinet (12/5/85, Paris); Dr. David Klatzmann (12/5/85, Paris).

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  Aarhus, study in

  Abbott Laboratories

  Abbott test

  see also HTLV-III antibody test

  ABC

  Abrams, Donald

  Abumombazi

  ACIDS acronym

  Ackerman, A. Bernard

  Acquired Community Immune Deficiency Syndrome (ACIDS), as name for disease

  Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), as name for disease

  acronyms for disease

  Action for Animals

  Adams Thomas

  Advertising Age

  Advocate

  Africa

  AIDS in

  hepatitis B in

  HTLV-III antibody testing and

  KS in

  African sleeping sickness

  African Swine Fever

  Agent Orange

  Agnos, Art

  Agnost, George

  “Aid AIDS Week”

  Aid Atlanta

  “AIDS: The Anatomy of a Crisis”

  AIDS acronym, coining of

  AIDS Activities Office

  AIDS-associated retrovirus (ARV)

  AIDS Clinical Research Center

  AIDS Coordinating Committee

  AIDS Forum

  AIDS Foundation

  AIDS Medical Foundation

  AIDSpeak

  AIDSphobia

  “AIDS Prevention Media Project”

  AIDS Project-Los Angeles

  AIDS-Related Complex (ARC)

  400 AIDS supplemental appropriations bill

  AIDS Task Force of the U.S. Conference of Mayors

  AIDS Vancouver, Dugas and

  Air Canada, Dugas and

  Alabama, AIDS in

  Albert Einstein College of Medicine

  see also Rubinstein, Arye

  Alcoholics Anonymous

  Alert Citizens of Texas

  Alexander, Brandy

  Alexander, Walter

  Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club

  Alive

  Allen, James

  All Hallows’ Eve

  “All Species Rally”

  “All You Need Is Love”

  Alpha Therapeutic Corporation

  Altman Lawrence

  AMA

  Amadeus

  “Amazing Grace”

  Amburgy, Victor

  Ambush

  Ambush poppers

  amebiasis

  amebic dysentery

  amebic parasites

  American Academy of Dermatology convention

  American Academy of Pediatrics

  American Airlines

  American Association for Personal Privacy

  American Association of Blood Banks

  American Association of Physicians for Human Rights (AAPHR)

  American Cancer Society

  American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR)

  American Hospital

  American Hospital Association

  American Life Lobby

  American Medical Association

  American Neurological Association

  American Public Health Association

  American Red Cross

  amino acid therapy

  Ammann, Art

  amyl nitrite

  see also nitrite inhalants

  Andelson, Sheldon

  Anderson, John

  Andromeda Strain, The (Crichton)

  Angelina (nurse)

  Angola

  Animals

  Annals of Internal Medicine

  antibody tests, see hepatitis; HTLV-III antibody test

  antimoniotungstate, see HPA

  Apuzzo, Virginia

  ARC (AIDS-related complex)

  Army, U.S.

  ARV (AIDS-associated retrovirus)

  Asia:

  AIDS in

  hepatitis B in

  Associated Press

  Association of Independent Gay Health Clubs

  athlete’s foot

  Auden W. H.

  Auerbach Dave

  Australia, AIDS in

  Axelrod, David

  AZT

  babies

  blood transfusions and

  candidiasis in

  of hemophiliacs

  of intravenous drug users

  Bactrim,

  Badlands,

  “Ban-AIDS” campaign

  bank robbing

  Bantus

  BAPHR

  Baptiste-Brunet, Jean

  Barre, Francoise

  bathhouses, bathhouse controversy

  Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom

>   Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (BAPHR)

  Bay Area Reporter

  Bear, Hollow

  Belgium, AIDS in

  Bellamy, Carol

  Belli, Lia

  Belli, Mel

  Benjamin, Robert

  Bennett, Arthur

  Bennett, John

  Bennett, Michael

  Bennett, William

  “Benson”

  Berkowitz, Richard

  Berlandt, Konstantin

  Bernstein, Leonard

  Berreth, Don

  Beth Israel Medical Center

  Bhagavad Gita

  Bicentennial, New York City celebration of

  Big Chill, The

  Biggar, Robert

  birds, diseases of

  birth-control foams

  Black, Paul

  Blattner, Bill

  blindness

  blood donors, blood industry

  blood donors (com.):

  FDA and

  see also hemophiliacs, hemophilia; hepatitis; HTLV-III antibody test

  Blood Sister Project of San Diego

  blue code

  B-lymphocytes

  Board of Rabbis of northern California

  Bob (Rick Wellikoff’s lover)

  Body Politic

  Bolan, Robert

  “Bolt”

  see also butyl inhalants; nitrate inhalants

  Boneberg, Paul

  bone sarcoma

  Boom Boom, Sister

  Boom-Boom Room

  Borchelt, Bob

  Borchelt, Cathy

  Borchelt, Frances

  Born in the U.S.A.

  Botnick, Victor

  Boucher, Bud

  Bove, Joseph

  Boxer, Barbara

  “Boy Scout sex”

  Bradley, Tom

  Brady, James

  brain disorders

  Brandt, Edward

  Branigan, Laura

  Brewer, Joe

  Briggs, John

  Briggs Initiative

  Britt, Harry

  Broder, Sam

  Brown, Amos

  Brown, Edmund

  Brown, Willie

  Brun-Vezinet, Francoise

  Bryant, Anita

  Buchanan, Patrick

  Buckalew, Judi

  Bulldog Baths

  Burke’s Peerage

  Burkitt’s lymphoma

  Burton, Phillip

  Burton Sala

  Bush, George

  Bush, Larry

  butyl inhalants

  see also nitrate inhalants

  Bygbjerg, lb

  Cable News Network

  Cabradilla, Cy

  Cabrini Medical Center

  Cahill, Kevin

  CAIDS (Community Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), as name for disease

  California Department of Health Services

  California state government

  California Tumor Registry

  Callen, Michael

  Cameron, Paul

  Campbell, Bobbi

  as KS Poster Boy

  as Sister Florence Nightmare

  Campbell Jack

  Camus, Albert

  Canada, AIDS in

  cancer

  lymph

  skin; see also Kaposi’s Sarcoma

  candidiasis (yeast infection)

  oral (thrush)

  “Can We Talk?”

  Carey, Hugh

  Carini, Dr.

  Carter, Jimmy

  Carter administration

  Castel del Ovo

  Castro Country Club

  Castro District

  cats, diseases of

  see also feline leukemia; toxoplasmosis

  Cauldron, The

  CBS News

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (com.):

  Ebola Fever virus and

  epidemic calculated by

  FDA and

  GRID acronym and

  Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (KSOI) Task Force set up by

  NCI feud with

  Tylenol scare and

  Central Africa

  Chabner, Bruce

  Chaikin, Lu

  Chaps

  Chemical Bank

  chemotherapy

  Chermann Jean-Claude

  Cherry Grove

  Chesley, Robert

  Chicago Public Health clinics

  chickens, diseases of

  children, AIDS in

  see also babies

  chimpanzees, as lab animals

  Chirac, Jacques

  Christian Broadcasting Network

  Christopher Strut

  Clarke, Kenneth

  Claude-Bernard Hospital

  Cleaver, Scott

  cloning

  Club Bath Association

  Club Baths

  cluster study

  Coalition for Human Rights

  Coal Miner’s Daughter