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Before the Test

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“I didn’t know what caused it. There was a time when I thought just being gay would be enough,” said Tucker, a 31-year-old receptionist, when I asked him about the early years of the AIDS epidemic. “I knew it was happening in gay men. Could it have been excessive masturbation? There goes my hobby.”

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© 1995 William I. Johnston

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Johnston, W.I. (1995). Before the Test. In: HIV-Negative. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6106-8_4

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