Historians like me, pseudo historians, fake historians.

We were done a real disservice in San Francisco because they destroyed all the early records

to keep the dignity of those first AIDS patients.

That's their line of thinking.

But we lost a lot of historical documentation.

Did you ever read the Randy Schultz book?

Yeah, and the band played on.

And I watched the movie as well.

Randy Schultz is the one that's guilty for the Legend of Patient Zero.

There's a Canadian academic, very, very gay guy who did an excellent piece of work on

Gaiton Duga, Patient Zero.

And he pulled out the publisher from St. Mark's Press here in New York City.

He also a gay guy.

And he said to Randy, no one's going to read your book because it's very dry.

We got to sex it up a bit.

Why don't we pump up the Gaiton Duga story?

This publisher, sorry, editor.

He spoke to a buddy at the New York Post.

He says, what are we going to do here?

What's going to be the book?

Let me look at it.

He goes, Gaiton Duga broadades from Canada to the United States.

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