#HIV activism

[meandtheveggies]

a VERY last minute application

[rikaklassen]

Yesterday was Long COVID Awareness Day. Glad to see ACT UP NY (Instagram outlink) being in solidarity with Long COVID survivors.

Way too many queer folks forgot (links to a zine) about the HIV/AIDS denialism in the '80s and '90s.

If you're interested in agitprop posters designed based on old HIV/AIDS awareness campaigns (Wikimedia outlink), Anna, aka X/@_copy_of_a_copy, has a series of "ACT UP/MASK UP" posters (Google Drive outlink) along with a long list of resources. mx. papaya (Carrd outlink) created a series of "Where is your RAGE?" posters and "CDC Kills" (Google Drive outlinks). Cohost/@edania has also produced a few posters here and here.

[mediaomnivore]

This is what I wrote on Letterboxd about Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988):

I can’t believe how many famous people were in this. I can’t believe I didn’t remember that Magic Johnson is canonically the Magic Screen’s cousin. I can’t believe I met him once in conjunction with his HIV activism.

[thequeereview]

Theatre Review: Truth To Power Café (Lincoln Center, New York) ★★★★★

Who has power of you and what do you want to say to them? That’s the bold and tantalizing question at the heart of Jeremy Goldstein’s Truth to Power Café directed by Jen Heyes, which made its United States premiere this month as part of Lincoln Center’s second annual Festival of Firsts. For Goldstein, a British-Australian veteran theatre maker and HIV+ activist, the answer is his late father. As…

[magicfemme]

“Still loved."

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[commiepinkofag]

Dr. Gao Yaojie: Dissident doctor who exposed China's AIDS epidemic, dies at 95

Her work uncovered how businesses selling blood led to the spread of HIV in the countryside.

She was at the forefront of AIDS activism in China and traveled across the country treating patients, often at her own expense.

A gynecologist by training, she encountered her first AIDS patient in the central province of Henan in 1996.

While she was not the first Chinese doctor to expose the AIDS epidemic, it was her efforts that made the situation known to the country and beyond.

She told the Associated Press in a previous interview that she withstood government pressure and persisted in her work because “everyone has the responsibility to help their own people. As a doctor, that’s my job. So it’s worth it.”

[nerdlifeisbetterthanreallife]

#30DaysofPride: Day 26- Lou Sullivan

Lou Sullivan was a gay trans man who was refused medical transition by the establishment because of his gay identity. Approximately a year after his bottom surgery, he was the first trans man diagnosed as living with HIV.

Let’s talk about the hypocrisy of the medical system. Lou Sullivan was born in 1951 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was assigned Female at Birth and documented his life as a gay trans man. in 1973, he Identified himself as a “Female to Male transvestite” and in 1975 came out as “female-to-male transsexual”. He began keeping diaries at age 10 and his diaries were so extensive that they were published…

[oldguardleatherdog]

It's World AIDS Day! Yay!! 🙏

33 years "fully-blown" and counting!

This Old Queer With AIDS™️ wishes you all a very merry WAD! Be sure to shoot yours before midnight (it's the law!)

[local-lover-boy]

Hey

My name is Calvin Phil. I'm a queer refugee originally from Uganda, but I'm currently living in a refugee camp called Gorom in South Sudan. Though I know it might feel a bit random. I’m really sorry for reaching out like this; it's embarrassing, and I hate to ask for help in this manner. I hope you understand.

I represent a group of fellow LGBTIQ refugees here, and we are facing some serious issues that I wanted to share with you in case you're able to help or know someone who can. We are currently in urgent need of support for survival. Many of us are starving, with no access to food or medication, and some are living with HIV/AIDS. The situation is extremely dire, and on top of that, we face daily persecution, as Sudan's laws against the LGBTIQ community are harsh and unforgiving.

Any support or help for our cause would mean the world to us in these desperate times. If you're unable to donate, sharing this with others would be immensely appreciated.

GoFundMe Link:

https://gofund.me/4d80b32c

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards,

Calvin Phil

I can't help, but I hope this reaches someone who can, or at least spreads awareness

[monriatitans]

HIV/AIDS MONTH QUOTE 11

The image was made in Canva; check it out at the [referral] link here!

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting too much." - Deborah B. Gould, Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight against AIDS

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[xtrablak674]

Charlie Pizzarello - GMHC's Young Hot & Safe '94 Photoshoot

I was a member of Gay Men's Health Crisis's - Young Adult Prevention Program for a few years and was amongst the team of young people who helped to develop this campaign. I also was a model at the photoshoot and had the good fortune to also end up in the final campaign that rode all over the MTA in the form of a subway poster that was posted all over the transit system in buses and subways.

This campaign was executed exactly thirty years ago, and I can recall how much fun I had at the photoshoot with folks I knew and a lot I didn't know, it felt like a plutonic orgy with all the mis-matching of couples to get as many varieties of pairings as possible for the final product.

Not that I am a person who attends reunions, it would be wonderful to have a reunion of the folks that participated in this campaign just to see who is still with us, and who isn't, and what they have all done with themselves since then. I am pictured with Timothy Fischetti above, who is no longer with us, I was so sad to hear he had departed because the last time we spoke he sounded so happy and content, an actualization of this campaign in my assessment. Modern society has always wanted to cast queers as sad and loathsome people. We were seeking to assert a more positive presentation of young queer folks, being beautiful and practicing safer sex.

This campaign was HIV/AIDS education with a sex positive harm reduction message targeted towards the sexually active and future active youth of New York City, being the early nineties there was media backlash to the campaign, I was pleased to stand with Councilman Tom Duane at the press conference for this campaign and give my own words about how important representation matters for young people in regards to AIDS education whether they be sexually active or not.

My father was an activist post-Vietnam until his death. There is a legacy of activism within my family and I was happy to spend over ten years focused on HIV/AIDS education in the queer communities. The messages have changed but activism is still necessary and hopefully the kids today are picking up the reigns and pushing the messages that need to be heard by the public and hopefully pushing the movement and conversation forward.

[Photos by Charlie Pizzarello]

[sacredverses]

[heartencasedingold]

I followed her story for years. I was so heartened to be a FB friend and see her living life well into her 30s. Her passion, her honesty, her truth. Her resilience. God rest her soul.