1. Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (New York: Picador, 1990), 116.
2. See Douglas Crimp, “How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic,” October 43 (1987): 260.
3. Jean L. Marx, “AIDS Virus Has a New Name — Perhaps,” Science (May 9, 1986): 699.
4. Ibid.
5. Philip J. Hilts and Cristine Russell, “U.S., French Teams Fight Over AIDS Virus Credit,” Washington Post, April 19, 1986, A3.