In the early 1980s, Pride celebrations in the Bay Area were shrouded in sorrow and grief as a lethal virus spread silently within the gay community.
On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published a first report of five gay men in Los Angeles -- all previously healthy -- who had been diagnosed with a rare pneumonia.Dr. Fauci was 40 then, an immunologist at the National Institutes of Health. He wondered whether these men were using some kind of substance which caused these respiratory problems.
"I'll be real honest with you. From that first story, from that first day, I could see this was this huge event," Bunn said. In its coverage, KPIX broke new ground. The station partnered with public health experts as well as community members. Reporters used explicit language to explain how the disease was spread so viewers better knew how to protect themselves.
"We went in and so much information came out of that about just the human side of this thing," McGowan said. "We lived up to what's written on a license when you have a television station which is to serve the public good," Plante said. It was a sort of home-grown activism that, when reported on television and in the news, informed others how to seek, develop and get better health care.
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