GAETAN Dugas is the French Canadian flight attendant that many in the US know as “Patient Zero” — the first man to have and spread HIV in America — has been exonerated by new research.

Gaetan Dugas has been described as ‘one of the most demonised patients in history’ – but it has finally been proven that he was just one of the disease’s many victims ...

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Dugas would be the villain, the slut, the embodiment of gay complicity in the virus’s spread; a symbol of the need for gay men to wear condoms, alter their lifestyles, and shut the bathhouses.

Gaëtan Dugas was everyone's friend. Handsome, funny, full of life. Those who knew the Canadian said he was convinced one day he would become a star. And he did become famous. But for all the ...

Lynd’s film not only works to rehabilitate Dugas’s image 35 years later, but provides some chilling examples of how the gay community was portrayed in mainstream media before and during the ...

There are heartbreaking Catch-22 moments. Dugas was first labelled Patient O for “outside of California,” but someone along the way mistakes the O for a zero. There is no Patient Zero.

The title makes it sound like a Cold War spy thriller, but Laurie Lynd’s documentary actually sets out to right a wrong. Killing Patient Zero rehabilitates the public image of Gaetan Dugas, the ...

So I welcomed the chance to rehabilitate Gaetan Dugas’ name and, in getting to know him second-hand, came to admire his courage immensely. For the time, he was so openly gay!

Gaetan Dugas It’s so important to remember that the virus itself wasn’t even announced publicly until after Gaetan’s death. I think we don’t know what we would have done in his situation.

In the late 1970s, Quebecois flight attendant Gaetan Dugas was openly and proudly gay, described by friends as flamboyant, sexual and generous, with a supportive family and penchant for makeup ...