AIDS News Clippings

From "This Week in Texas" and other publications

7/24/81, first article in TWT
and below right, 7/3/81, first NYT mention

 

    ALSO, see Montrose Clinic section
            of this site

Early Texas Deaths

Clint Moncrief, Houston, died on 3/9/82
Roy Wimbrow, Houston, died on 4/28/82
Murray Gilbertson, Houston, on 6/27/82
Michael Nolan, San Antonio, died on 11/25/82
Jim Jones, Houston, died on 12/4/82
Donald Smith, Houston, died on 12/17/82
Joe Philpot, Dallas, died on 12/25/82
Stephen McCool, Houston, on 1/22/83
Eduardo Gonzales, Houston, on 1/28/83
Dexter Burnett, Houston, on 3/8/83
Geoffrey Thurman , Houston, on 4/17/83

After about this time, TWT stopped reporting on individual deaths
as "news" stories, it wasn't news any longer.
On June 17, 1983, TWT began its now famous Obits section,
in the back of the publication, and it became a "go to first"
whenever we picked it up for many years

This Page, 1981 to 1986
Next Page, 1987+

1982

first reported Texas death

  

   
both would die in 1984

Gary Spino Obituary
Michael McAdory Obituary

Above and below, an early fundraiser for Kaposi's Sarcoma, at Numbers, 10/2/82

     

sloppy research in the above article....with name misspellings,
and Moncrief died 3/9/82, not in 1981

1983

  

  

   

  

   

after this point, only selected clippings shown

1984

The Playsafe Calendars, for 1985 and 1986

Download PDF of 1985 Playsafe Calendar
Download PDF of 1986 Playsafe Calendar

1985

Above, 1985 Pride Entry
Below, after the first few years there became way too many clippings to grab and share, so only selected ones will be shown from this point

The Impact of AIDS on American Theatre
Billie Duncan

 

See next page for 1986+