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Events in LGBT history.
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1981
1981-06-05First report on AIDS in the United States
In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the Centers for Disease Control in the United States describes five cases of gay men in Los Angeles suffering from “pneumocystis pneumonia.” This proved to be the first report on what would later be described as AIDS.