Malcom Gregory Scott met Dr. Doug Ward in 1994 as an HIV patient with Kaposi Sarcoma, a type of cancer that causes the telltale skin lesions associated with an untreated HIV infection. Their story is a story of perseverance, luck, and friendship, but it is also an oral history of a queer community at the deadliest moment of the United States' HIV epidemic. Together, Malcom and Doug share how the HIV epidemic brought them together as doctor and patient, and how they became lifelong friends.

Content Note: This episode is rated as explicit for the occasional use of mature language and some brief, but frank, discussion of sexuality.

Brief History of HIV: 00:07

Malcom & Doug’s Story: 05:09

Announcements: 43:20