Performed on the shores of the Great South Bay July 15-17, Fire Island Dance Festival raised $655,090 to help ensure those across the country living with HIV/AIDS, COVID-19 and other debilitating illnesses have access to lifesaving medications, counseling, healthy meals, housing and more. Produced b

Former FDNY Chief Joseph Pfeifer was on a routine run in lower Manhattan when he saw a plane aim and crash into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Pfeifer was initially in charge at the scene and made critical decisions that likely saved thousands of lives.

Created to benefit Dancers Responding to AIDS with generous support from Legacy Sponsors Peter McKown and Kenneth Heng and Legacy Sponsors David Benaym and Danny Tidwell Benaym.
Music: Bobby Darin Coreagraphy: Al Blackstone.

Ukraine had its first Gay Pride Parade in 2013 amidst intolerance and suppression. In 2020, and due to the covid-19 pandemic, the organizers of the event decided to make a world statement regarding their Gay Pride by flying a rainbow flag with a drone and attaching it to their Moderland Monument i...

This edition of the World AIDS Museum series: Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS," profiles Dr. Peter Babinski. Dr Babinski is a Dermatologist who has been dealing with the AIDS epidemic since the first cases of Kaposi Sarcoma and Neomosistic Pneumonia in Broward County, Florida in the early 1980's. In hi...

In this chapter of the AIDS Chronology, the World AIDS Museum (WAM) highlights the life and career of celebrities stricken by the HIV/AIDS virus in cinema, the silver screen, sports, fashion, music and the arts.The World AIDS Museum will be the first museum dedicated to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The Ed...

WCBS-TV New York, Channel 2 News coverage of ACT UP protest at Manhattan's marriage license bureau in 1989. The report features an on-camera interview with former Lambda Defense and Education Fund executive director, the late Thomas B. Stoddard. Anchor: Ernie Anastos; Reporter: J.J. Gonzalez.

David Matheson said he regrets perpetuating the idea that being gay is a disorder. “It is horrifying to think that I was part of a system that held people like me down,” he said in an exclusive interview for Channel 4 News. Matheson, 57, admitted the practice which nearly 700,000 Americans have unde

HIV treatment doesn't just save lives; it reduces the risk of the virus being passed on by 96%. Yet millions of HIV sufferers still receive no treatment. If we're to make AIDS history, more treatment is urgently needed. The film "A Guided Tour of the AIDS Museum" was shown on February 14, 2013 as p

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...