I was in the Presidio of San Francisco and Monterrey in 1983-1984. A year or so ago, one gay person actually told me that the AIDs crisis was Reagans’ fault because Reagan did not send in the National Guard and FORCE the gay’s to stop using the bath houses.
I asked him if the gays would have accepted that action or would they have called Reagan a Hitler. He stated that he would have had no problem with that action. I called him a liar to his face and left the area. The gays did call Reagan “Hitler” when he tried to shut the bath houses and I was there for the riots, burning cars, throwing bricks through business windows, etc.
Yes, I remember, it was hysterical lunacy. The MSM gave it a lot of attention.
Some rather strange things were going on at the Presidio in those days. Were you aware of any of it? Perhaps it was a hoax, I’ve always wondered.