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Dan Royles

Dan Royles is an assistant professor or history at Florida International University and author of To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS (University of North Carolina Press). He is currently working on a biography of Claude Brown, author of the 1965 memoir Manchild in the Promised Land.

Three black gay men hold up a protest sign that reads “BLACK GAY” with a plus sign beneath it, indicating a positive HIV/AIDS status. Next to them is a banner that reads “Atlanta Black Gay Mecca.”

When My Brothers Fell

As we grapple with the relentless Covid-19 outbreak, now in its second year, it may be easy to forget that we are already in the midst of another, older pandemic: HIV/AIDS. When it was first identified in the United States in 1981, the disease that would soon be named Acquired ...