Margaret Heckler was President Reagan's secretary of health and human services from March 1983 to December 1985. Here she says AIDS was her number one priority, but that she had to balance her department's response against the Reagan administration's fiscal priorities. Heckler maintains that preexis...

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Portugal (2010), Iceland (2010), Argentina (2010), Denmark (2012), Brazil (2013), France (2013), Uruguay (2013), New Zealand (2013), th...

Everyone who gave up their time to appear in the video and support the cause, including: Our celebrity supporters: Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Lorraine Kelly, Sharleen Spiteri, Michelle McManus, Pat Kane, the Proclaimers, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Carol Smillie, Susan Calman, Melanie Masson, Horse McDonald...

Reactions to real-life couple Tymur and Zoryan walking the streets of Kiev holding hands were mostly muted, and many bystanders seemed more amused than upset. That wasn’t the case however when Tymur decided to sit on Zoryan’s lap in a popular city park. The two were approached by a dozen or so neo-N

This edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles Jen and Paul Robertson, who are honoring their dear friend interior designer Carl Freiwald. Carl was a native of Michigan who died of AIDS at the age of 49. He was a talented interior designer who worked for the Robertson Brothers in...

In September 2012, Toronto Marlies Head Coach Dallas Eakins invited You Can Play co-founder Patrick Burke and out gay hockey player Scott Heggart to address the team. At the end of the presentation, the players asked if they could find ways to get involved with You Can Play that went beyond just mak...

This documerntary was produced in 2004 by CBS as part of "Witness", a documentary from CBS news. Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC 'Witness', 2004) On April 12, 1955 Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was first licensed for public use in the U.S. In the years afterwards 90 million Americans were vac...

GAMING IN COLOR exists for anyone who believes that the pixelated world can be a better place for everyone, no matter who they are. It is not too uncommon a tale where a bullied, abused youth seeks solace in a video game, only to find that their one hope of sanctuary, their escape into a virtual uni...

NEW YORK CITY – OCTOBER 7, 2013 – ACT UP/New York and allies celebrated the New York Public Library’s landmark exhibition on AIDS activism with a demonstration on the first day of the exhibit, Friday, October 4th. More than thirty ACT UP members and allies collected in the exhibit room and died-in o