Draft:No Obits
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"No obits" was the headlining article of the August 13, 1998 issue of the Bay Area Reporter, the LGBT newspaper serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It marked the first time in 17 years that no obituaries appeared in the paper for deaths due to HIV/AIDS.
AuthorTimothy Rodrigues
PublisherBay Area Reporter
Publication date
August 13, 1998| Author | Timothy Rodrigues |
|---|---|
| Subject | HIV/AIDS in the United States |
| Publisher | Bay Area Reporter |
Publication date | August 13, 1998 |
| Media type | Newspaper article |
| Pages | 2 |
"No obits" represented a time of transition in the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States. Advances in HIV/AIDS therapies in the late 1990s decisively reduced
Background
HIV/AIDS crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area
Bay Area Reporter
The Bay Area Reporter was founded in 1971 to serve the San Francisco LGBTQ community. As the AIDS pandemic progressed throughout the 1980s, the Bay Area Reporter provided extensive coverage, including an obituary section