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Jun 2, 2011
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About 100 volunteers helped place a giant red ribbon on the slope of San Francisco’s Twin Peaks to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. The ribbon, visible for many miles when the San Francisco fog lifts and made of about 15,000 square feet of tarp, will remain on the hillside for about a month. How did the activists decide the anniversary date? On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a notice of a rare pneumonia that struck five gay men in Los Angeles.
