et upon a picture-perfect sky on the Fire Island Pines’ glistening Great South Bay, the 25th anniversary edition of Fire Island Dance Festival brought together a diverse, captivating program of world premieres, dance legends and stirring storytelling. The festival on July 19-21 raised a record-shatt

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

Florida clerks can start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples in January -- but if they do, they could risk arrest and jail time. An anti-gay group in Hawaii is still trying -- and failing -- to stop marriages. And things are still looking bad for the National Organization for Marriage.

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

Fire Island Dance Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary edition July 18-20, 2014, with artistry, gravity-defying movement, romance and remembrance, raising a record-shattering $533,860 for Dancers Responding to AIDS, a program of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.The festival, performed outdoors

After a chance encounter in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Johnathan Bailey) start a volatile romance that spans "the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obsta...

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

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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

With over 50,000 new HIV infections every year and the highest AIDS-related death rate of any wealthy nation, it has been declared that the US is “losing the battle against HIV.” This failure is a result of gaps in the “HIV Care Continuum” – which consists of the stages of HIV care ranging from kno