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Bobbi Campbell
August 15, 1984
American nurse and early AIDS activist
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Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. was a public health nurse and an early AIDS activist in the United States. In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, when it was a substitute for an AIDS diagnosis. He was the first to publicly come out as a person with what came to be known as AIDS, writing a regular column in the nationwide San Francisco Sentinel describing his experiences and posting photos of his SK lesions to help other San Franciscans know what to look for, as well as helping to write San Francisco's first safe sex manual.
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- Anniversary · August 15
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