“You almost had to have a college degree to understand that,” he said. He told The New York Times in 1987. “We put people of color on the brochure so people wouldn’t say, ‘This doesn’t affect me.’” This effort was also aimed at overcoming cultural taboos in minority communities. “AIDS cloaked the world that homosexuality …

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