Acknowledgments -- Dramatis personae -- The bureaucracy -- Prologue -- Behold, a pale horse -- The feast of the hearts -- Before : 1980 -- Glory days -- Beaches of the dispossessed -- Foreshadowing -- Freeze frames -- Paving the road : 1981 -- Critical mass -- Good intentions -- The prettiest one -- Ambush poppers -- Golf courses of science -- Bad moon rising -- The gathering darkness : 1982 -- Enemy time-- Patient Zero -- Bicentennial memories -- Nightsweats -- Too much blood -- Entropy -- Running on empty -- Forced feeding -- Dirty secrets -- Dancing in the dark -- Battle lines : January-June 1983 -- Let it bleed -- Midnight confessions -- Denial -- Anger -- The big enchilada -- Turning points -- Only the good -- Priorities -- Meanwhile -- AIDSpeak spoken here -- Star quality -- Rituals : July-December 1983 -- Marathons -- Just another day -- Politics -- Science -- Public health -- Journalism -- People -- Lights & tunnels : 1984 -- Prisoners -- Bargaining -- The feast of the hearts, part 2 -- Squeeze play -- Traitors -- Political science -- Downbound train -- Republicans and Democrats -- Embarrassed -- Depression -- The war -- The butcher's bill : 1985 -- Heterosexuals -- Exiles -- Reckoning -- Exposed -- Awakening -- Acceptance -- Endgame -- Epilogue : After -- Reunion -- The feast of hearts, part 3 -- Notes on sources --
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