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HIV in the '80s: 'People didn't want to kiss you on the cheek'

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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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