“Here is the real domino theory: Gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.”

The dangers of an AIDS epidemic. The New York Times, sect. A, p. 31 (December 9, 1993).

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