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The series won the
prestigious Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club, and was
nominated for a national Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
(GLAAD) Award, in the same category with The New York Times and The
Boston Globe.
2012 marked the
30th year of the first known cases of what would later be called AIDS.
The series was initially slated to be nine months long, but the paper
continued the series to meet the demand for more coverage on the impact
of the epidemic.
The series
featured new information on the impact of AIDS locally, nationally and
internationally, as well as features on people lost to AIDS, activists,
volunteers, scientists, doctors, nurses, service providers, and groups
which sprang up to respond to the crisis.
Windy City Times
was founded in 1985, just as AIDS was escalating in Chicago and across
the world. The series pulled from the archives of the newspaper, in
addition to other publications produced by Publisher Tracy Baim:
Outlines, BLACKlines, En La Vida and Nightspots. Baim coordinated a team
of more than two dozen reporters.
"Many young people
today do not realize the impact the AIDS epidemic had on the GLBT
community," said Baim. "We wanted to document that history, and give
perspective to this disease, which has claimed millions of lives around
the world. The AIDS epidemic is not over, even though new therapies have
helped some people survive longer."
