If you've ever asked who brought AIDS to the United States, you've likely been told that "Patient Zero" was a man called Gaëtan Dugas.
The Canadian flight attendant was blamed for carrying the virus from Africa and spreading it around the gay community in North America.
Immortalized in books like Randy Shilts's And the Band Played On, Dugas also became central to the narrative at the time that the disease was spread by reckless, promiscuous men who have sex with men.
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