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Added: Mar 21, 2015. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 144012477. Source citation. Roger Lyon, 36, formerly of Houston, died Nov. 4, 1984 at the University of California Medical Center where he had been hospitalized for three weeks. Lyon was diagnosed with AIDS in 1983. His health had remained relatively stable for a year until last June when rapid ...
- September 30, 1948
Roger Gail Lyon. Little is known of Roger Gail Lyon except for one important testimony he gave to a Congress committee on AIDS, that took place on August 1st, 1983, one of the greatest activism moments of the period. Lyon was born in 1948 in Houston, later moved to Chicago and finally San Francisco where he became a branch manager for the San Francisco Maritime Shipping Company. In early 1983,...
- September 30, 1948
- November 4, 1984
It still is a global epidemic; according to the United Nations, there were 2.6 million new cases and 1.8 million AIDS-related deaths worldwide in 2009. While these numbers are down from 2004, the ...
On this day in 1983, Roger Gail Lyon famously testified before Congress pleading: “Please don’t let my epitaph read, 'He died of red tape.'” He was dead...
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Mr. Lyon. STATEMENT OF ROGER LYON, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Mr. LYON. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was diagnosed with Kaposi sarcoma on February 3 of this year. Prior to that time I was having absolutely no AIDS-related symptoms whatsoever. On physical exam at that time three lesions were found internally.
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