The Stonewall riots were more than a decade in the past a year earlier, reports had surfaced about rare pneumonia and cancer afflicting homosexuals in New York and California-the first glimmers of what would later be called AIDS. In August 1982, 1,350 athletes from 12 countries gathered in San Francisco for the first-ever Gay Games. A demonstrator holds a rainbow flag and the Russian national flag during a protest against Russia's anti-gay laws outside the Russian embassy in Berlin.
