Russell T Davies on It’s A Sin: ‘We were all Aids deniers – then it got real’ – BBC News

“Activists, people who were ahead of the game, tried to leave information in pubs. They’d leave leaflets, and landlords would throw them out. Gay landlords would throw them out of gay pubs, thinking they were trying to scare people, thinking they were trying to stop sex, thinking it was an anti-gay movement.