It is finally official. The home of the NY’s AIDS memorial will be at St Vincent’s Triangle in what will be named as The New York City AIDS Memorial Park, and it is scheduled to be fully opened by by late this summer according to POZ magazine. “The New York City AIDS Memorial Park at … Continue reading
Over the next three nights Dance Now! one of the leading contemporary dance companies in Miami will be performing Lacrymosa, a 30 minute ballet created by the late Edward Stierle in 1987 when was a mere 19 years old. Stierle was a principal dancer with prestigious Joffrey Ballet and at that time he was already infected with the HIV virus, … Continue reading
Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on … Continue reading
The screenshot above is from a rather wonderful animated French AIDS Public Service Announcement that we have just discovered. Directed by Wilfrid Brimo, it chronicles a lifetime of gay sex, love and heartbreak, featuring a track from the 1970s by The Rubettes called “Sugar Baby Love”.
During a Candlelight Memorial to slain gay politician Harvey Milk in San Francisco in 1985 Cleve Jones who had been an Intern for Milk and two years ago prior had co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation came up with the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It took him and his colleagues another two years … Continue reading