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Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) [1] 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, [2] when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis. [3] He was the first to come out publicly as ...
A few years after graduating and leaving the Pacific Northwest, Campbell took what he learned as a nurse and gay-rights activist and brought AIDS into public view as the first person in the nation to go public with his diagnosis.
May 5, 2022 · Bobbi Campbell (January 28, 1952–August 15, 1984) would have been 70 this year. He was only 30 in 1982 when he and Dan Turner brought together a group of people to found what became the People with AIDS Self-Empowerment Movement (PWA).
But Bobbi Campbell deserves to be on that list of crucial activists who made a significant impact on the AIDS movement. In 1981, Bobbi Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco diagnosed with Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS) and the first person to come out having AIDS publicly.
Jun 16, 2024 · Bobbi Campbell was the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with KS. The flier he hung in the window of Star Pharmacy was the nation’s first AIDS poster.
Bobbi Campbell, left, and his lover Bobby Hilliard help focus American media on the emerging AIDS epidemic in August 1983. “It was right up my alley,” he said at a conference in 1983. “Unfortunately, I was in the alley.”.
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Learn about nurse Bobbi Campbell, who made one of the earliest AIDS posters in 1981, and see other posters that feature people living with HIV/AIDS. Explore how posters communicate public health messages, community responses, and personal stories of the pandemic.
