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How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon

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How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon
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In the mid-1980s, as the AIDS crisis simmered hotter and hotter in the apartments and bathhouses of New York, a band of frightened, fed-up young men took to copy shops around town. They were watching friends, partners, and lovers waste away with a mysterious virus, blamefully dubbed the “Gay Plague” by some. These kids knew what they were doing when they took jobs at Kinko's. Clandestinely running the printers after hours — a so-far-indifferent corporate America owed th

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