The early story of AIDS, as shown by PBS: The public broadcaster’s early “NewsHour” reports about AIDS during the early 1980s, in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases, do a lot to put a face to a difficult, multi-sided health crisis at a point where we didn’t really know what we were dealing with. At one point in this clip, an anti-AIDS activist compares the disease to leprosy and says this fairly shocking statement: “We are not talking about discriminating against gays, we are talking about discriminating against someone with an infectious disease.” Noted AIDS victim Ryan White, just a teenager when he died, is also shown in the clip being taught in one of his classes via telephone. Watch this. It’ll remind you how far we’ve come in 30 years.