Gaywaves interview on the 40th Anniversary of AIDS in the USA with Gil Kudrin

June 5, 1981, forty years ago this week, reports appeared of a strange new illness that seemed to only affect gay men. That illness turned out to be AIDS.

 

Our guest on Gaywaves this week is Gil Kudrin, who is one of the longest survivors of AIDS on the planet, and a leader of ACT UP Cleveland at the time when LGBT men and women, through efforts like ACT UP and other activist efforts, taught the National Institutes of Health how to deal with the problem, and how to serve the gay population at a time when our government did not even utter the words.

 

This segment aired June 10, 2021