How the late Rev. Jesse Jackson was a pioneer of the progressive movement and LGBTQ+ ally - WBEZ Chicago

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In the early 1980s, health officials became aware of a disease that was impacting young and healthy gay men in the United States. In 1982, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described the disease as AIDS for the very first time. But it took U.S. leaders like then-President Ronald Regan y...