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Memoirs of the AIDS Era
Entertainment
Memoirs of the AIDS Era

Memoirs and bios that remind us it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

December 28 2018 5:00 AM
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Stigma
WATCH: DatingPositives' Moving Tribute To The AIDS Epidemic

Josh Robbins masterfully connects the dots between two lives lost in the early days of the AIDS Epidemic.

December 05 2018 12:22 AM
Remembering Fashion Model Timmy Girl's Fight Against AIDS
Stigma
Remembering Fashion Model Timmy Girl's Fight Against AIDS

Let's never forget Tim Clement, a fashion model, swimmer, and hero of the plague years. 

October 08 2018 12:08 AM
Hero Of the Plague Years Remembered
Long-term Survivors
Hero Of the Plague Years Remembered

Ken Meeks was a doctor and member of the board of directors of GMHC who died on this day, September 26, 1986 in San Francisco.

September 26 2018 1:49 PM
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Stigma
The HIV Thread That Broke Gay Twitter

A powerful thread on the oft-forgotten toll of HIV rocked LGBTQ Twitter on Monday and Tuesday.

September 20 2018 12:03 AM
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Activism
The Woman Who Cared for Hundreds of Abandoned Gay Men Dying of AIDS
Ruth Coker Burks, the "angel of the AIDS crisis," needs your help. The Historic Files Cemetery, which houses the gay men she and her daughter buried during the epidemic, is in need of restoration. Read her story, and follow the link at the end to donate.
July 09 2018 1:27 PM
'Patient Zero': Correcting the Record on a Media-Made Gay AIDS Villain
Stigma
'Patient Zero': Correcting the Record on a Media-Made Gay AIDS Villain

Writer Richard McKay on the legacy of Gaëtan Dugas, the man still connected to false narratives on gay men and HIV.

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