User talk:Rembrandt 13

Is the cited date of the onset of his disease in 1969 correct, or a typo? It has been my experience that most men who developed full-blown AIDS rarely lived more than a few years, and in 1969 the HIV virus had not yet been discovered, though it ostensibly might have existed then.

It would seem that 1989 might be a more logical date. In the following, an inference can be made that Mr. Dixon announced his HIV status that year:

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cal/summary/v023/23.1rowell01.html