“New Homosexual Disorder Worries Health Officials,” May 11, 1982, The New York Times.
September 24, 1982: Despite medical experts’ recent assurances that GRID is not an infectious disease, immunodeficiency does not exist, and blood transfusion sources are safe, the CDC acknowledges “gay cancer” is a misnomer for the disease and adopts the term A.I.D. for Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease. The National Cancer Institute sounds the alarm at a Congressional hearing that the crisis should be “of concern to all Americans.”