CONTACTAbout UsCAREER OPPORTUNITIESADVERTISE WITH USPRIVACY POLICYPRIVACY PREFERENCESTERMS OF USELEGAL NOTICE
© 2025 Pride Publishing Inc.
All Rights reserved
All Rights reserved
By continuing to use our site, you agree to our Private Policy and Terms of Use.
Nearly 500 people with HIV/AIDS and their supporters said tearful, triumphant goodbyes to one another in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, the last of four high-energy, high-profile Days of Action organized by the Campaign to End AIDS. The new group traveled across the country to the capital to demand that local, federal, and world leaders do more to stop the AIDS epidemic in the United States and abroad.
While in Washington, campaign participants protested the Bush administration's funding of HIV prevention programs that ignore scientific evidence of the effectiveness of condoms and teach abstinence until marriage as the only means of avoiding the virus. Gatherers also highlighted the immediate need for Congress to reauthorize and fully fund the Ryan White Care Act, which provides treatment and care to more than a half million uninsured Americans with HIV/AIDS, and to increase funding for other programs relied upon by people with AIDS worldwide. "We've lighted a fire, and we're bent on keeping it burning bright," declared campaign cochair the Reverend Charles King, CEO of the New York City AIDS agency Housing Works, which played a major role organizing the D.C. events.
Eight campaign caravans traveled different routes through the U.S. en route to Washington. Together they gave rise to scores of rallies, town meetings, and other events in more than 150 stops nationwide. African-Americans, who account for nearly half of new HIV infections in the U.S., made up roughly half of all campaign travelers. Once together in Washington, participants marched through Anacostia, a part of D.C. hit hard by the epidemic, as residents waved, applauded, and clamored for AIDS information and condoms. Sunday, an interfaith prayer service was held at Metropolitan AME Church, where the body of civil rights hero Rosa Parks had lain the week before. (advocate.com)
From our Sponsors
Most Popular
31 Period Films of Lesbians and Bi Women in Love That Will Take You Back
December 09 2024 1:00 PM
18 of the most batsh*t things N.C. Republican governor candidate Mark Robinson has said
October 30 2024 11:06 AM
True
After 20 years, and after tonight, Obama will no longer be the Democrats' top star
August 20 2024 12:28 PM
Trump ally Laura Loomer goes after Lindsey Graham: ‘We all know you’re gay’
September 13 2024 2:28 PM
Melania Trump cashed six-figure check to speak to gay Republicans at Mar-a-Lago
August 16 2024 5:57 PM
Latest Stories
Trump’s new White House Press Secretary targets transgender people in first briefing
January 28 2025 6:24 PM
Jeremy Allen White to star as a bisexual man in upcoming Netflix romance
January 28 2025 5:44 PM
Trump signs executive order banning federal support of gender-affirming care for anyone under 19
January 28 2025 5:25 PM
True
Elon Musk denied his dream West Wing office, and the Internet rejoices
January 28 2025 4:50 PM
Pete Buttigieg eyeing potential Michigan U.S. Senate race
January 28 2025 4:48 PM
Fringe political leader defends lynching, calling violence against LGBTQ+ Pride ‘acceptable’
January 28 2025 10:51 AM