AIDS
ACT UP changed AIDS activism. Sarah Schulman wants us to learn its lessons
“If people wanted to be out, the only place they could be respected was the queer community.”
How Avram Finkelstein Changed The Way We Think About AIDS — With One Pink Triangle
I was raised in a feminist household. My mother saw the posters in New York, and said it was the “shot heard round the world.”
Mathilde Krim, Pioneering AIDS Researcher Who Fought Stigma, Dies At 91
Mathilde Krim, a prominent AIDS researcher who fought the stigma surrounding the disease, has died.
In Their Own Words: The Beautiful Lives We Lost To AIDS
For World AIDS Day, read this life-affirming story written by a young Jewish man who lost his life to the disease.
In The AIDS Pandemic, William Hoffman Saw Parallels To The Holocaust
Playwright William Hoffman, one of the first writers to confront the AIDS pandemic in “As Is,” has died at 78.
Mark Wainberg, Trailblazing AIDS Researcher, Dies In Florida Swimming Accident
Mark Wainberg, a trailblazing Canadian AIDS researcher, reportedly died Tuesday after swimming in rough water in Bal Harbour, Florida. He was 71.
Liz Taylor Ran a 'Dallas Buyers Club' Out of Her Home
Elizabeth Taylor was reportedly running a ‘Dallas Buyers Club’-like secret network out of her Bel Air mansion to get medication to people with HIV.
Israeli Army Lifts Ban On Soldiers With HIV
The Israel Defense Forces will now draft HIV-positive people, changing its polic, officials said on World AIDS day.
Why the AIDS Reporting of Jeffrey Schmalz Must Be Remembered
When it came to increasing public awareness of the AIDS crisis in America when it needed it most, few journalists did as much as The New York Times’ Jeffrey Schmalz in such a short period of time.
HBO's Larry Kramer Doc Isn't Just Good. It's Important.
“Larry Kramer In Love & Anger,” which premieres on HBO next week, is a ‘warts and all’ biography about one of the pioneers of AIDS activism.