WASHINGTON –The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has partnered with Greater Than AIDS to provide information about HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention at 18 LGBT Pride festivals across the country this summer. The partnership builds on the Greater Than AIDS Speak Out campaign, launched last year, to engage the LGBT community in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic…
SAN DIEGO – Join in the fun Thursday, June 19 to kick off this year’s 25th annual AIDS Walk & Run San Diego, a program of the San Diego LGBT Community Center (The Center). Some of San Diego’s hottest food trucks will gather at The Center, 3909 Centre St., and will donate a portion of their…
The Normal Heart When Larry Kramer premiered his play The Normal Heart off-Broadway in 1985, his agonizing, angry autobiographical story about the AIDS epidemic in New York City and the few activists desperately trying to help their lovers and friends, hit the city like an emotional meteor. While a very few theater critics were able…
CHICAGO — A generation is growing up thinking an AIDS diagnosis is no big deal, but the Center for Disease Control estimates that more than 1 in 2 young gay men will be HIV-positive by the time they’re 50 years old. The second book in Victoria Noe’s award-winning series on grieving the death of a…
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) has announced that it will host a series of regional listening sessions this summer on the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). Mr. Douglas Brooks, ONAP’s newly appointed director, will lead the listening sessions, which will be part of a visit to each community that…
Eunime is an orphanage for children with HIV/AIDS just across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. The orphanage currently house 31 kids living with HIV and has just received a new born of four months old and they are expecting two more children under five in terminal stages and whom they hope to get healthy again….
http://youtu.be/kSBUrhYFHxI SAN DIEGO – Martinis Above Fourth will welcome Broadway World winner Robyn Spangler for her venue debut with her one woman show Why I love Linda Ronstadt with musical direction from fellow Broadway World Winner and San Diego favorite, Todd Schroeder Thursday May 29 at Martinis Above Fourth, 3940 Fourth Ave. in Hillcrest. Linda…
In recognition of 25 years of AIDS Walk, The San Diego LGBT Community Center has announced a special slate of events. The silver anniversary weekend will take place Sept. 26-28. AIDS Walk & Run will take place on Saturday, Sept. 27, with additional community events throughout the weekend. “This is truly a milestone for our…
Fredrick William Scholl, 74, of Lemon Grove passed away due to natural causes April 16 at his home. Fred Scholl helped build many of San Diego’s most important LGBT institutions. Fred was born in San Diego but lived in Germany as a child, and lost both of his parents in World War II. Members of…
NEW YORK — Growing up in the small Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, Matt Bomer discovered the work of Larry Kramer before he even knew he was gay himself. At 14, Bomer pulled Kramer’s play The Normal Heart from the shelf of a small library in the closet of his high school theater. As a…
