In 1988, at the height of the AIDS crisis, activist Vito Russo compared the epidemic to trench warfare, a nightmarish battle in which “every time a shell explodes, you look around and you discover that you’ve lost more of your friends, but nobody else notices.”
Nearly three decades after Russo spoke these words—he later succumbed to complications from the disease himself—New York wants to make sure that everyone takes notice.
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