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Transcript: Letters From Listeners
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- March 17, 1994
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NOAH ADAMS, Host: Several of you wrote this week about our interview
with Gabriel Rotello. In his article, The Birth of AIDS, Mr. Rotello
suggests that the AIDS virus is very old and that it was promiscuous
behavior during the 60's and 70's, largely in the gay community, that
turned a rare disease into an epidemic.
ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Michael Rogofsky [sp] of Provincetown, Massachusetts,
writes, `Mr. Rotello is historically inaccurate. In the book, Discovering
The Life of Leonardo Devinci, Serge Bramley states, `homosexuality
was so widespread in Florence at the time that the legal penalties
were never enforced. In spite of the threat of divine ...