Jon Reed Sims & the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band
Marching On Founded by Jon Reed Sims, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band Celebrates Forty Years of Making a Joyous Gay Noise by Hank Trout Photography by Michael Kerner There’s not a lot that I...
View ArticleDay With(out) Art 2018: Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
Visual AIDS has announced its programming for the 29th annual Day With(out) Art on December 1, 2018, World AIDS Day. The program, ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS, emphasizes the impact of art in...
View ArticleRussell Deason: Advocate
Tough as Nails For Singer/Pianist Russell Deason, Surviving is a Cabaret by Hank Trout Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Michael Kerner When Russell Deason was growing up in Ft. Collins,...
View ArticleARTcetera 2018: October 27
ARTcetera: Discover Art, Change Lives The AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts invites you to attend ARTcetera 2018, a biannual art auction. ARTcetera 2018 boasts unique surprises and an elegant...
View ArticleRadiant Health Centers: 9th Annual Orange County Ride for AIDS
Radiant Health Centers Gears Up for 9th Annual Orange County Ride for AIDS Radiant Health Centers in Irvine, California invites the Orange County community to don their brightest cycling gear on...
View ArticleMeet Raymond Luczak, A&U’s New Fiction Editor
We are thrilled to welcome esteemed writer Raymond Luczak to our team as fiction editor. Raymond has been with the magazine from issue one—no joke! In Fall 1991, A&U printed Raymond’s poem, “The...
View ArticleRafael Campo: Poet, Physician, Advocate
Then and Now In a Collection of New & Selected Poetry, Physician Rafael Campo Explores HIV in a Medical Idiom by Noah Stetzer 1994 is the year that Jeff Bezos founds Amazon. It’s also the year that...
View ArticleOne Heartland Sponsors Jazzy “Holiday in the Heartland” for Kids’ Camps
One Heartland Sponsors Jazzy “Holiday in the Heartland” for Kids’ Camps Each summer, One Heartland welcomes more than six-hundred young people to camp for a week of play to build skills, confidence,...
View ArticleCody Bondra: Advocate
Playing with Feeling At Concerts and on Social Media, Musician Cody Bondra Raises Awareness About the Work of Project ACHIEVE by T.J. Banks Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Alina Oswald What...
View ArticleJohn Wikiera: Advocate
Promise Kept Advocate John Wikiera Made a Deal with God & Kept Up His End of the Bargain by Lleda McCurty Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Scot Maitland “If you need to cough, hold the...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Larry Pettit, 1945-2018
Photo: Alex Ray Late night on November 7, 2018, a massive heart attack took from us Larry Pettit, one of San Francisco’s LGBTQ community’s most beloved “characters” and volunteers. His neice Melissa...
View ArticleSanta Skivvies Run: December 9
Elves do not belong on shelves! They need a bit of exercise and fun. One way to celebrate the season of merriment and raise funds for San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s lifesaving services is to...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2018: God’s Love We Deliver
God’s Love We Deliver is the New York City metro area’s leading provider of nutritious in-home meals for people living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses. GLWD depends upon sales from...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2018: Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Suppose you had to select another “Broadway Baby” to join Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Gwen Verdon, Patti Lupone, Carol Burnett and others as the legendary star to be honored with an...
View ArticleHoliday Gift Guide 2018: Adam’s Nest
Adam’s Nest, a shop in the East End of Provincetown, Massachusetts, that offers “Art, Apparel, Jewelry & Whatnot” during the “season,” may not be the first place you think of for holiday gift...
View Article2018 Desmond Tutu Award for HIV Prevention & Human Rights: Linda-Gail Bekker
Prof. Linda-Gail Bekker at HIVR4P 21-25 October 2018, Madrid, Spain • Photo © HIVR4P/ Leon Gutierrez The 2018 Desmond Tutu Award for HIV Prevention Research and Human Rights was presented to HIV...
View ArticleI Still Remember: World AIDS Day 2018
La Vie Galerie LLC, Livingston, New Jersey’s new arts venue, will commemorate World AIDS Day 2018 (December 1, 2018) with an exhibit of a new “photography narrative,” that is, a fictionalized narrative...
View ArticleUntil There’s A Cure Turns 25
Conversation Starters Until There’s A Cure Executive Director Nora Hanna Discusses the Past, Present & Future of the Foundation as It Turns Twenty-Five Text and Photos by Alina Oswald I bought my...
View ArticleA Survivor’s World AIDS Day: December 1, 2018
A Survivor’s World AIDS Day December 1, 2018 by Hank Trout December 1, 2018 marks thirty years since James W. Bunn and Thomas Netter, two PR officers for the World Health Organization in Geneva,...
View ArticleLiving With…: World AIDS Day Performances November 29-December 2
Living With… A New Show Uses Drama Therapy to Explore the Reality of Living with HIV in 2018 by Alina Oswald Photos by Lap Yan Cheung “Do you resent people with AIDS? Do you trust HIV negatives? Have...
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