I totally understand that going back to the mid-80s there will have been the horrible crisis that existed at that time. 1985 (the year I was born) was a very very hard year for gay men because of that damn plague that took so many wonderful lives. I often wonder, in the same hospital I was born, was there a gay man dying of AIDS in another part of it at the same time... the answer is probably sadly yes.
I think we'd all wish of course wish for a world where HIV/AIDS never happened.
[For this scenario, I was thinking more so in the 2000s and 2010s, and going online, such as to the old Daddy's Reviews site.]