On Valentine’s Day in 1984, 28-year-old Dale Thele arrived in Austin by way of Tulsa looking for a new start. Even more shocking: The people most at risk-young gay men-don’t seem to care.
In the past eight years, HIV/AIDS cases in the Austin area have increased by 40 percent. More than 30 years after the AIDS epidemic, the disease is making a resurgence in the capital city.
