A press release from Dallas County's Health Department announcing that the rate of new HIV infections was increasing in young homosexual and bisexual men and that researchers were seeking homosexual or bisexual men 25 and under to survey. Following this are a series of documents about the press release and survey including research notes and a flyer advertising the survey.
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A press release from Dallas County's Health Department announcing that the rate of new HIV infections was increasing in young homosexual and bisexual men and that researchers were seeking homosexual or bisexual men 25 and under to survey. Following this are a series of documents about the press release and survey including research notes and a flyer advertising the survey.
Preferred Citation:
Dennis Vercher Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0789), University of North Texas Special Collections
Collections
This text is part of the following collections of related materials.
LGBT Collections
Publications pertaining to issues relevant to the LGBT community. The collection includes The Dallas Voice, a weekly newspaper for the gay community in North Texas that has been published since 1984.
Named for journalist and activist Dennis Vercher. These materials, which include correspondence, newspaper clippings, financial documentation and press releases, relate to LGBT activism, legislation and HIV/AIDS.
Dallas County Health Department.[Press Release & Documents: Protecting Our Young... New Young Men's Survey],
text,
December 6, 1994;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc825010/:
accessed June 28, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.