On World AIDS Day, thinking of progress and how to build on it in the face of hostility
“As long as people willing to fight, we will change the course of history,” says HRC's Matthew Rose.
December 1, 2025
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Trump administration won't observe World AIDS Day
A directive from the State Department assures that 2025 will be different from 2024, when President Biden hosted the first display of AIDS Memorial Quilt panels at the White House.
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Gay 'Boots' star Miles Heizer says he's in the Out100 for playing 'a bald teenager on TV'
"There are people on this list that have dedicated their lives to advocating and fighting for our community," Heizer said at the Out100 gala.
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
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Tim Mendelson, who is helping to carry on Taylor's activism, remembers her on National Coming Out Day.
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Lynn Faria named as SAGE’s new CEO, pledging to lead with joy, authenticity, and fierce advocacy
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October 10, 2025
Michael Seltzer, prominent LGBTQ+ activist and fundraiser in fight against AIDS, dead at 78
Seltzer spurred philanthropic organizations to take the AIDS crisis seriously.
September 10, 2025
Homophobe Rand Paul says gay CDC official's 'lifestyle' made him unfit to be in government
The U.S. senator from Kentucky made the comment about Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who resigned over the Trump administration's anti-science policies.
September 2, 2025
Javier Muñoz, Peppermint to lobby Congress against cuts in HIV funding
The celebrities will join other activists in D.C. in the coming week as part of the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, as Congress considers cutting $1 billion from essential programs.
August 29, 2025
Messenger RNA could be the key to an HIV vaccine — but RFK Jr.'s cuts pose a threat
The notorious anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. recently canceled $500 million in federal grants for mRNA vaccine research.
August 20, 2025
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Louie Mandrapilias's debut book is a compulsive read.
August 18, 2025
Trump's war on harm reduction will cost LGBTQ+ lives
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August 14, 2025
The Trump Administration has killed America’s lifeline to the world
Opinion: By dismantling USAID and slashing more than 80 percent of its programs, the Trump administration has jeopardized decades of bipartisan progress, endangered millions of lives, and sent a dangerous message: America no longer leads with humanity.
August 14, 2025
Remembering Wallis Annenberg, lesbian philanthropist who did much for the LGBTQ+ community
The publishing heiress was a major donor to LGBTQ+ and AIDS organizations.
July 31, 2025
Trump admin may end PEPFAR, replacing it with a program chiefly benefiting the U.S.
The State Department has drafted a plan to end the successful global HIV-fighting program.
July 23, 2025
Malcolm-Jamal Warner leaves behind an enduring HIV legacy with his groundbreaking 1992 film
Best known as Theo on The Cosby Show, Warner also educated a generation on AIDS prevention.
July 22, 2025
40 years later, the hope and the hurt of 'St. Elmo’s Fire'
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July 2, 2025
Gender-affirming care funding ban out of budget bill, but it still will devastate LGBTQ+ people
Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more will harm the community.
July 1, 2025
1987 looms as a year of fear, fortitude, and firsts for the AIDS Quilt, Nancy Pelosi, and me
Opinion: I feared being fired. I feared being outed. I feared other gay men. I feared the incurable plague. I feared I would die. I feared everything, writes John Casey.
June 10, 2025
Nancy Pelosi honors those lost to AIDS epidemic with Gay Men's Chorus of D.C. during WorldPride
The exhibit of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the venerable St. Thomas’ Parish in Washington, D.C., features panels for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington members who died of the disease.
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