pre-AIDS
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In 2022, Pitchfork said the duo’s debut offered “a snapshot of pre-AIDS queer life at its heady peak.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
It’s a fascinating, scrappy time capsule of queer life in post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS epidemic America that chronicles the revelry and protest that greeted the modern gay liberation movement.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2020
What does “Torch Song,” a post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS work about love and acceptance, say now, in an era of PrEP, marriage equality, and gender fluidity?
From The New Yorker • Nov. 5, 2018
Agonizing over my decision, I settled on Chapter 13, "Love Connection," which captures the light-hearted innocence of the pre-AIDS, gay community of the early '80s.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2018
I came out in the early 80s and the vibe of the pre-AIDS drag culture was this nasty, cattyiness in which people projected their bitter, internalized homophobia on each other.
From Slate • Nov. 6, 2012
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