
Bobbi Campbell
✶January 28, 1952
†August 15, 1984
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✶January 28, 1952
†August 15, 1984
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Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. was a public health nurse and an early United States AIDS activist. In September 1981, at the age of 29, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis. He was the first to come out publicly as a person with what came to be known as AIDS, writing a regular column in the San Francisco Sentinel, syndicated nationwide, describing his experiences and posting photos of his KS lesions to help other San Franciscans know what to look for, as well as helping write the first San Francisco safer sex manual, Play Fair!.
American nurse and early AIDS activist
Biography from the article Bobbi Campbell on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.