This series spans the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the absence of government intervention and the organizers that continue to rally against the virus. From filmmakers Sandy Woodson and Emily ...
Sometimes, you discover history in a garage, stored in dusty boxes, or in memories that go unspoken for decades. Often, it ...
I clipped Randy Shilts’s obituary from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and carefully placed it inside my copy of And The Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic – his most famous, most ...
A nation that had ignored so many AIDS-related deaths could not ignore Ryan White’s funeral. Held on April 11, 1990, in “the gothic expanse of Second Presbyterian Church” in Meridian Hills, an ...
World AIDS Day was this past Friday, December 1, though the ongoing fight against AIDS—and our commemoration of the lives lost to the disease over the years—is certainly not limited to a single day.
It is almost unimaginable how far we have come from the earliest days of the AIDS epidemic in the United States. The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, and the mortality rate increased every ...
When 20-year-old UF anthropology major Fiona Garber and a group of their peers were tasked with a research project as a part of UF’s Alexander Grass Scholars Program, they chose to delve into the ...
The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired lawyers, immigrants, Catholic nuns, newly out gay men who had just arrived in New ...
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — In the late 1980s during the height of the AIDS epidemic, Gary Cheatham started doing laundry for his friends who were sick with a virus that had already killed thousands.
Joe Biden made history on World AIDS Day last Sunday by being the first president to display panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the White House’s South Lawn. Biden and others mentioned the quilt in ...
On October 2, 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, became the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS.