HIV in the '80s: 'People didn't want to kiss you on the cheek'
Elizabeth Landau, CNN
May 25, 2011 7:42 a.m. EDT
Like so many gay men in the 1980s, Edmund White struggled with an illness that seemed like a death sentence.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Author Edmund White, 71, found out he had HIV in 1985
White, Larry Kramer and four other men founded Gay Men's Health Crisis
White felt isolated and discriminated against as a result of his disease
He is now a professor of creative writing at Princeton University
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