dvd of the week HBO’s stunningly good production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s iconic play about the early years of AIDS in New York and the founding of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, arrived more than 29 years after the play’s premiere. Kramer’s alter ego is Ned Weeks (a searing Mark Ruffalo), a neurotic gay…
SAN FRANCISCO– The National AIDS Memorial Grove announced today the naming of its youth scholarship program in honor of AIDS educator, activist and reality television pioneer Pedro Zamora, who passed away 20 years ago from an AIDS-related illness. The Pedro Zamora Young Leaders Scholarship Program will help foster the next generation of leaders, helping support…
Pleasant Hill, IOWA — After 16-year-old Alexander Betts Jr. passed away following a suicide attempt, his family chose to have his organs donated. His heart, liver, kidneys and lungs were all donated to recipients in need. His eyes, however, were not. The young man’s eyes were rejected for donation, not because of any medical condition,…
MYANMAR — LGBT activists have used the popular Nat ‘spirit’ festival in Myanmar to provide HIV related information and promote blood tests and condoms to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS among gay men in the country, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The annual spirit festival is a socially accepted gathering point for members of the gay community even though same-sex relations are…
blaA recent survey finds that many young people of color disagree with same-sex marriage being the top priority of the LGBT agenda, pointing instead to other issues like HIV/AIDS and bullying. The new survey, “Moving Beyond Marriage: What Young People of Color Think about the LGBT Agenda” from the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago,…
Stepping Stone of San Diego is a non-profit rehabilitation center that primarily serves the LGBT community by helping those who struggle with alcohol, drug addiction and HIV/AIDS reclaim their lives. “If you are a gay man, gay woman or transgender person and go to a program that does not accept that, you are not going…
MELBOURNE, Australia – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today three major HIV and AIDS awards, funded by the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), to support global efforts to help end extreme poverty by creating an AIDS-free generation. The new programs support implementation of the PEPFAR Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-Free Generation…
You didn’t want to look. When you bought the ticket, you knew the movie was going to be scary, but you had to see it for yourself. Kind of. Peeking between your fingers. You couldn’t look … but you couldn’t look away, either. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was barely understood, Sean Strub decided…
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…
BANGKOK — A new online data tool for policy makers and program managers involved in AIDS response will now provide easy and real time access to strategic information on HIV in Thailand, reports GayAsiaNews.com. The Disease Control Department of the Ministry of Public Health, on behalf of the Thailand’s National Aids Committee, in partnership with…
