Peter Staley
publication date: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 (part of Fall 2020)
category: Activism
clue: This AIDS activist spent the 1980s learning how to survive the kind of widespread health crisis that we all face today.
explanation: Staley figured prominently in the documentary How to Survive a Plague. more…
difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, and Erik Bates
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