A protesters sign during the AIDS pandemic, circa 1985

Fun Fact: the state of Washington has decreased the the penalty of knowingly infecting another person with Aids from a felony to a misdemeanor

This was back in the eighties when I grew up. I remember politicians discussing whether to just "let God sort us out" or round us up and put us in concentration camps to prevent the disease from spreading to the heterosexual population. It took years, and not before it became an obvious problem for straight people, that prevention started. So many died alone without family or treatment and all that was needed was some research to provide information and condoms.