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The following story will move Saturday as this week's Sunday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VIRUS OUTBREAK-AIDS CRISIS REMEMBERED -- LGBT New Yorkers who lived through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s see some chilling parallels in the COVID-19 pandemic now wracking their city. But more so, they stress the differences. Back then they were frighteningly marginalized in the face of indifference from the government and much of the public; now they’re in the same boat as their fellow citizens. UPCOMING: By National Writer David Crary. 900 words, photos.

The AP