How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus
by Daniel Baldwin Hess and Alex Bitterman
Throughout the pandemic, local neighborhoods have played a critical and well-documented role providing the health and social services necessary for American communities and businesses to survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gay neighborhoods were particularly well equipped to meet this challenge, according to our latest research on these communities.