World AIDS Day
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Ric Weiland : the LGBTQ+ activist who still keeps on giving
We all need heroes and role models. Especially in the LGBTQ community. Most of the ones we have are very colorful and loud. However, there are some like Rik Weiland who is far from that. Yet this very quiet private man, one of the original founders of Microsoft who sadly took his own life…
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Visual AIDS is marking Day With(out) Art / World AIDS Day at three FREE premiere events in NYC and Los Angeles!
For Day With(out) Art 2022, Visual AIDS presents Being and Belonging, a program of seven short videos highlighting under-told stories of HIV and AIDS from the perspective of artists living with HIV across the world. The program features newly commissioned work by Camila Arce (Argentina), Davina “Dee” Conner and Karin Hayes (USA), Jaewon Kim (South Korea), Clifford Prince King (USA), Santiago Lemus and Camilo…
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Sydney is to re-stage WARD 17 Australia’s first dedicated HIV/AIDS unit
Queerguru loves to look around the world to see the different ways that World Aids Day is on December 1st each year. Technically there is a particular project in Sydney Australia that will not be ready by then but will be a remarkable memorial when it is completed. Sydney’s new LGBTQI museum Qtopia has…
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Alexis Gregory talks about performing RIOT ACT at Crazy Coqs on Dec 1st to mark WORLD AIDS DAY
Alexis Gregory’s solo verbatim show, RIOT ACT was created entirely word for word out of interviews with three key-players in the history of the LGBTQ+ rights movement; Michael-Anthony Nozzi; a survivor of the Stonewall Riots, Lavina Co-op, an alternative ‘70s drag artist, and Paul Burston; a prominent ‘90s London AIDS activist. Riot Act’…
