1983

Apple launches Macintosh, announced by the famous commercial, '1984'.

Michael Jackson performs 'Billie Jean' where he moonwalks for the first time.

Margaret Thatcher is elected, leading Britain's Conservative party for a second term.

Vancouver Lymphadenopathy AIDS Study (VLAS) begins enrollment of over 700 homosexual men, to gain personal information on sexual activity and risk factors that may be a contributor to AIDS

First AIDS forum is held March 12, 1983 by AIDS Vancouver at the West End Community Centre. Keynote speakers include Dr. Brian Willoughby, Dr. Michael Maynard, Paul Popham, Geoff Mains, Steven Sacks, Pastor Ernie Lacasse and the alleged 'Patient Zero' Gaëtan Dugas

Dr. Brian Willoughby speaks at the first AIDS forum and encourages people who have any symptoms of AIDS, or gay men with multiple sex partners, to exclude themselves from giving blood.

'Fight Fear With The Facts brochure is produced by AIDS Vancouver.

AIDS Vancouver creates a phone hotline to answer calls from the public.

AIDS Vancouver holds its first Support Group meeting for people infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.

Pasteur Institute isolates the HIV Virus for the first time.

First known 'safe sex' publication - 'How to Have Sex in an Epidemic, by Richard Berkowitz is published.

Larry Kramer's essay '1112 and Counting is published in The New York Native.

AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) is established.

National task force on AIDS is established later National Advisor Committee on AIDS), which is appointed by the Canadian Minister of National Health and Welfare.

The first AIDS case appearing in a hemophiliac is published in the 'Canada Diseases Weekly Report.