In 1990, Elizabeth Glaser stood before delegates at the Communications Workers of America convention to share her personal fight against a disease which had already claimed her daughter's life. She told them about the shocking lack of research and treatment options for children living with HIV, and ...

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...

Students at Winter Park High and across Florida walked out of class Monday in protest of the Parental Rights in Education bill, aka the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. A video of hundreds of students gathered outside Winter Park High in Orlando has been making the rounds on social media. In it, the students c

The 1993 AIDS musical Zero Patience, however, breaks the mold completely, in the best possible way. If you don’t often feel seen by the movies you watch (at least, not in a good way) but from the moment I pressed play on John Greyson’s offbeat masterpiece I described it as “one of the most Henry mov

For the 20th Anniversary of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim in Bilbao the museum was lit up with an incredible light display telling the story of Bilbao and the Guggenheim. This marks a successful 20 years for the City as the museum reinvented the City as cultural centre.

Life’s gorgeous expanse was at the forefront of this year’s Fire Island Dance Festival, expressed through stunning dance and stories, all enhanced by the power of nature as it played out on the scenic backdrop of the waters of the Great South Bay. The longest-running charitable and cultural event in

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“Ritchie, Roscoe and Colin are young lads, strangers at first, leaving home at 18 and heading off to London in 1981 with hope and ambition and joy… and walking straight into a plague that most of the world ignores. Year by year, episode by episode, their lives change, as the mystery of a new virus s

Dancers Responding to AIDS, founded in 1991 by former Paul Taylor Dance Company members Denise Roberts Hurlin and Hernando Cortez, is a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, one of the nation's leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations. By drawing upon...

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