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Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) was a public health nurse and an early United States AIDS activist. In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis.
The cover of Newsweek on August 8, 1983 featured Bobbi Campbell (right) and his partner Bobby Hilliard. So often, Campbell’s story is told in a few brief sentences. He was a UW School of Nursing alum who moved to San Francisco in the mid-1970s.
Nurse Bobbi Campbell. Early on, the public and the United States government neglected HIV/AIDS. In response, dying people and their communities took action. In 1981, nurse Bobbi Campbell put up a poster in the window of his local pharmacy that read “GAY CANCER.” He included photos of lesions he had on his body.
May 5, 2022 · Campbell created and posted San Francisco’s first AIDS awareness poster. The same month that he received his diagnosis, he put a notice of the illness, including pictures of his KS lesions, in the window of the Star Pharmacy at 18th and Castro streets, the intergalactic crossroads of the gay world.
Jan 28, 2020 · Bobbi Campbell (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) was a nurse and an AIDS activist who in September 1981 became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with AIDS related Kaposi's sarcoma (KS). He was one of the first to come out publicly as a person living with AIDS.
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Selected material from the diary of Bobbi Campbell, nurse and self-identified "AIDS Poster Boy." Campbell was one of the first and most public People with AIDS (PWAs), speaking at numerous conferences and other events. The diary is dated July 1983 through February 1984. Call number: MSS 96-33
Sep 2, 2011 · Bobbi Campbell, who received one of the earliest diagnoses of AIDS in the city. He died in 1984. Marie Ueda. By Jesse McKinley. Sept. 2, 2011. SAN FRANCISCO.
