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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HIV-positive men stage 'Kiss-In' protest at U.S.-Mexico border (in photos)
Here's why HIV-positive men met at the border between the United States and Mexico to kiss.
December 1, 2025
The Trump administration is choosing silence on World AIDS Day, but we're showing up louder than ever
Opinion: World AIDS Day is about coming together to remember loved ones and share in shared pain. But it is also about recommitting to the fight to ensure that we move forward, rejecting a deadly return to government inaction, argues Jeremiah Johnson and Maxx Boykin.
December 1, 2025
What the AIDS crisis stole from Black gay men
On World AIDS Day, a long-term survivor recounts the terror, the beauty, and the community that saved him — and why honest and informed conversations must begin now in Black communities.
December 1, 2025
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.
November 26, 2025
AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed at White House for the first time
It’s been a big 2024 World AIDS Day for the world’s largest ongoing community art project.
December 2, 2024
Hollywood must do better on HIV representation
This World AIDS Day, the entertainment industry can commit to fighting stigma by creating realistic representations of people living with HIV.
December 1, 2024
Decades of progress, uniting to fight HIV/AIDS
Reflecting on her work in HIV/AIDS prevention, Congresswoman Barbara Lee writes on how the fight is not yet over.
December 1, 2024
President Biden to host AIDS Memorial Quilt on White House South Lawn for World AIDS Day (exclusive)
The president and First Lady Jill Biden will host a public display of the Quilt for the first time on the South Lawn that people can visit and view.
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November 29, 2024
Dr. Fauci Calls Out Homophobic Lawmakers: 'The Antigay Attitude of People Is as Bad' As He's Ever Seen
On World AIDS Day, the world’s foremost authority on the disease says it’s time for us to be "very, very, very aggressive on pushing back" against the dangers caused by the extreme right.
December 1, 2023
A Note on World AIDS Day From Our CEO
Equalpride's Mark Berryhill shares his thoughts on a disease that's impacted our community for over four decades.
December 1, 2023
Nasty Pig's Cofounder Reflects on Love, Sex & World AIDS Day
David Lauterstein opens up about the AIDS epidemic, kink pride, and rubber chaps.
December 1, 2023
In the City of Angels, Love Was Greater Than AIDS
The director of a new documentary about the AIDS crisis in Los Angeles in the 1980s — called Commitment to Life — talks about some of the courageous individuals who stepped forward in a fight for survival.
November 29, 2023