By the summer of 1985, AIDS had been spreading in the United States for several years, but most of the country still treated it as someone else’s problem—a disease confined to gay men, drug users, a handful of cities. That changed fast. In August, TIME ran a cover story, “AIDS: The Growing Threat,” reporting that cases were doubling roughly every ten months and that the disease was no longer staying inside the populations it had first been associated with—heterosexual adults, children, and people receiving blood … Continue reading about AIDS, the Closet and Coming Out