Brad Grimes: Advocate
Moving Mountains Brad Grimes Helps to Combat HIV and Stigma in West Virginia, the Reddest of the States by Hank Trout Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Ella Jennings Unless you would like...
View ArticleLove Rocks NYC 2019
LOVE ROCKS NYC 2019 to benefit God’s Love We Deliver For the third year now, LOVE ROCKS NYC, a fundraiser for God’s Love We Deliver (GLWD), will rock the historic Beacon Theatre on Thursday, March 7,...
View ArticleBryan C. Jones: Advocate
Not Telling A Story Advocate Bryan C. Jones Wants to Change the Narrative About HIV by Mel Baker Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Sean Black When I interview Bryan by phone from his home in...
View ArticleResisting the Firings of HIV-Positive Service Members
Red, White & Positive Amid the Trump Administration’s Firing of Service Members with HIV, Three Lawsuits Challenge the Pentagon’s Longstanding Policies by Larry Buhl Photos by Salma Mohammed/Lambda...
View ArticleReverend Yolanda: Advocate
Sacred Calling Award-winning singer/songwriter Reverend Yolanda offers a course in miracles, teaching about trans and HIV activism, self-empowerment & self-growth Text & Photos by Alina Oswald...
View ArticleNational Transgender Health Summit, April 13-14, 2019
The Center of Excellence for Transgender Health (COE) at the University of California (UCSF) has announced plans for the 2019 National Transgender Health Summit (NTHS), the biannual national conference...
View ArticleNicola Griffith: Writer & Advocate
I Am Not Anyone’s Metaphor A&U’s Raymond Luczak talks with writer Nicola Griffith about HIV, disability & community Photos by Jennifer Durham Nicola Griffith is one of those writers you cannot...
View ArticlePedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship: Apply Now!
Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship Application Period Now Open AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Photo courtesy NAMG The National AIDS Memorial Grove (NAMG) has announced that the application period for...
View ArticleTribute: Patricia Nell Warren
Tribute: Patricia Nell Warren Photos by John Selig In high school, I read Patricia Nell Warren’s The Front Runner, in fits and starts, standing in Economy Bookstore in downtown Syracuse, one eye on who...
View ArticleFilming H.I.(SHE): New Doc About Women & HIV
Filming H.I.(SHE) In a new doc, filmmaker Cassandra Roberts explores the lives of women living with HIV by Hank Trout Filmmaker Cassandra Roberts. Photo by Lou Macnamara Cassandra Roberts, an...
View Articleblu sunne: A Blog by Lester Strong: Remembrance: A Deserving Bit of Forgotten...
Remembrance: A Deserving Bit of Forgotten AIDS History Sometimes the past overtakes you in a very personal way, and you regain something you never knew you’d lost. A recent evening, reminiscing with a...
View Article33rd Annual AIDS Walk OC Moves to the Boardwalk
33rd Annual AIDS Walk OC Moves to the Boardwalk This summer Radiant Health Centers will host the 33rd Annual AIDS Walk OC on Saturday, June 1, at the Huntington Beach Boardwalk. AIDS Walk OC 2019 is...
View ArticleOrganizing for Power: Road to 2020
Organizing for Power: Road to 2020 On April 1, 2019, the Positive Women’s Network-USA (PWN), a national network of HIV-positive women and people of trans experience, unveiled a new year-long,...
View Articleblu sunne: A Blog by Lester Strong: Cheating Death: A Riff on the Life and...
Cheating Death: A Riff on the Life and Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe by Lester Strong My husband Dave and I went the other day to the Guggenheim Museum, on Fifth Avenue at 89 St. in Manhattan, to see...
View ArticleErin Allday: Writer & Advocate
Connecting to Our Stories With “Last Men Standing,” Journalist Erin Allday Honored Long-Term Survivors & Shared Their Wisdom by Hank Trout Reporter Erin Allday sits in Supervisor Jeff Sheehy’s...
View ArticleChuck Forester: Writer & Advocate
Sex Is Our Birthright Chuck Forester revisits the early epidemic in his new novel by Raymond Luczak Because I’d grown up in the Upper Midwest, as in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin, I...
View ArticleThe Life Group LA presents “The Next Level of Care: Aging & HIV+”
On Saturday, May 18, 2019, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Life Group LA will present “Elevate: The Next Level of Care: Aging & HIV+,” a free one-day seminar designed for HIV-positive folks over the...
View ArticleShaun David Hutchinson: Writer & Advocate
Choosing Life An Intrepid Advocate, YA Author Shaun David Hutchinson Encourages Readers to Protect Their Mental and Their Sexual Health by Dann Dulin Photos by Chris Piedra Suicide. Who hasn’t thought...
View ArticlePhiladelphia FIGHT Presents HIV Prevention and Education Summit
Philadelphia FIGHT Presents HIV Prevention and Education Summit On Tuesday, June 11, Philadelphia FIGHT will present The HIV Prevention and Education Summit from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the...
View ArticleLillibeth Gonzalez: Advocate
To Be Continued…. Lillibeth Gonzalez, a long-term AIDS survivor, used her pain as a stepping stone into her “golden” years by Candace Y.A. Montague Photographed exclusively for A&U by Sean Black...
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