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Trailblazing trans advocate Cecilia Gentili dies at age 52
She appeared on the trans-led TV series “Pose” and founded the nation’s first health clinic for sex workers.
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Bob the Drag Queen & Monet X Change: How NYC drag queens helped revolutionize queer health care
During the AIDS epidemic, drag queens united the community and provided a model for health activism that endures to this day.
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A Black trans woman won a $50k discrimination lawsuit. She hasn’t heard anything since.
The New York City Commission on Human Rights asked her to appear in an ad campaign to fight anti-trans discrimination before going silent. She didn’t get paid for that either.
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Employee fired for publishing man’s name & HIV status in misleading report
CBS published (then deleted) an article that made it seem that HIV could be spread through saliva. Even worse – the police officers that supplied the info are still promoting that as fact.
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Gay Men’s Health Crisis names new CEO
NEW YORK — Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the long-running HIV/AIDS prevention, care and advocacy group, has hired Kelsey Louie as its new chief executive officer.
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Comedian donates $50,000 to AIDS care in honor of anti-gay Westboro protestors
Comedian Lisa Lampanelli is donating $50,000 to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) in the name of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church in response to the church’s protest of her show Friday night in Topeka, Kan.
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Advocacy groups say NYC health department ad demonizes gay men, HIV patients
The Gay Men’s Health Crisis, an HIV/AIDS prevention and advocacy group, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), say the latest ad by the NYC Heatlth Department creates a grim portrait of being an HIV patient, which could further stigmatize victims.
