THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 10, 1981 

* HIV/AIDS becoming known to the public 
* Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
* Prior to it receiving it's official name 
* Gay-Related Immune Deficiency

Page 10 has a one column heading: "Homosexuals Found Particularity Liable To Common Viruses" (see images) 
I suspect this issue to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with all 48 pages, nice condition.

Background: The intense media reports on December 9 and 10, 1981—sparked by a landmark issue of the Boston-based New England Journal of Medicine and brought to the public via the New York Times under the stark subheading "Homosexuals Found Particularly Liable to Common Viruses"—marked the definitive turning point where the medical mystery transitioned into a recognized global public health emergency. Grounded in the first comprehensive clinical data from Dr. Michael Gottlieb and others, these reports exposed a terrifying reality: a near-50% mortality rate among a small cohort of previously healthy young men whose helper T-cells had completely collapsed, leaving them vulnerable to fatal, opportunistic infections. The immense significance of this moment lies in its dual nature as both a scientific breakthrough and a societal failure. Scientifically, it was a watershed moment that shattered earlier localized theories, shifting the global medical community toward the urgent, correct hypothesis that a transmissible, blood-borne infectious agent (later identified as HIV) was responsible, effectively mobilizing a worldwide race for a cure. Societally, however, the clinical detachment and stigmatizing framing of the early media coverage—which characterized the vulnerability as an inherent liability of a specific demographic rather than the path of a universal virus—inadvertently fueled a legacy of prejudice and political apathy that crippled the early public health response, leaving an indelible mark on the history of the modern AIDS pandemic.