Journalism from the AIDS Years 1982-2003

By the beginning of 1982, Adam Carr had started to hear about a 'new' disease apparently affecting mostly gay men and his first ever article on AIDS appeared in GCN in February of that year. It carried the rather flippant title "e;Will We All Die of 'Gay Cancer'?"e; This reflected the scepticism with which Adam, like most gay activists and journalists, received the initial reports that there was an outbreak of cancer specific to gay men. This article began a long journey of research, writing and activism around AIDS in the gay community, and in this part biography, part memoir, Adam looks back and details his years of writing about AIDS and the many impacts it had on the gay community of Australia during this time.