The third season of MTV's popular reality TV series "The Real World" was filmed on location at the 900 block of Lombard street in San Francisco. It aired on MTV from February to June 1994. It is considered to be the best season of the series because it tackled socially relevant issues such as AIDS a...

In this episode of Ask Dr Bob as part of COFL science section, Dr Bob Wallace explains his experience as an openly gay physician trying to combat stigma. The UF College of Medicine alumnus and St. Petersburg physician is no stranger to breaking down barriers. Wallace believes he was one of the first...

While AIDS came to prominence in the 1980s, a new study published Friday says it was actually around decades before, in the 1920s.
In what an international team of scientists are calling a "perfect storm" for spreading the virus, they think its proliferation started in the city of Kinshasa, the cap...

The controversial journalist/activist Randy Shilts (1951-1994), author of "And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic," and "Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the U.S. Military," "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" is interviewed about his cont

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...

Founded in 1991, Dancers Responding to AIDS, was the dance community’s first ongoing effort to support those living with HIV/AIDS. As a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, we help fund social service organizations in all 50 states and the essential programs of The Actors Fund.

There's no shortage of ways to do it these days. In fact, there's no excuse not to do it. Start Talking. Stop HIV., CDC's national campaign created by and for gay and bisexual men, promotes open communication about HIV prevention among sexual partners and encourages men in all types of relationships...

Never stop talking about ways to protect yourself and your partner from HIV. Start Talking. Stop HIV., CDC's national campaign created by and for gay and bisexual men, promotes open communication about HIV prevention among sexual partners and encourages men in all types of relationships to talk abou...

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

After the first smile, that wink, the flirtation -- but before the play, and even before the foreplay -- something else ought to be on your mind. Start Talking. Stop HIV., CDC's national campaign created by and for gay and bisexual men, promotes open communication about HIV prevention among sexual p...