AIDS Awareness Month

AIDS Awareness Month

"Compounding this political oversensitivity was a sometimes startling lack of real sensitivity to the situation. AIDS activists still remember the city’s first “AIDS Awareness Month” in April 1984, in which the city placed posters on CTA buses. The posters were dominated by a large, bold headline reading “AlDS”–under which was contact information printed in type so small that anyone who wanted to read it would have to walk over to the poster and look right at it, something a person worried about being tagged as gay would be most unlikely to do."-Chicago Reader

Chicago Department of Health, 1984