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About Lawrence D. Mass
- Lawrence D.
- Mass, M.D.
- (born June 11, 1946) is an American physician and writer.
- A co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, he wrote the first press reports on the epidemic that later became known as AIDS.
- He is the author of numerous publications on HIV, hepatitis C, STDs, gay health, psychiatry and sex research, and on music, opera, and culture.
- He is also the author/editor of four books/collections.
- In 2009 he was in the first group of physicians to be designated as diplomates of the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
- Since 1979, he has lived and worked as a physician in New York City, where he resides with his life partner, writer and activist Arnie Kantrowitz.
- Having written for the New York Native since the 1970s, he currently writes a column for The Huffington Post.
- An archival collection of his papers are at the New York Public Library.
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