Tag: AIDS
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Egypt: Covid-19 Threatens Treatment for HIV Patients
Egyptian authorities should ensure that people living with HIV can continue to safely access lifesaving medication, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Photo credit Bobbi Campbell, the «AIDS Poster Boy», ca. 1983; photograph by Marie Ueda, Marie Ueda Collection (2006-12), GLBT Historical Society.
Fighting Back: Lessons From AIDS for COVID-19
The GLBT Historical Society is responding to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic in a new series of online programs that examine the crucial lessons learned in the fight against AIDS.
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UAE: Prisoners Denied Lifesaving HIV Treatment
United Arab Emirates (UAE) prison authorities are denying non-national HIV-positive detainees in at least one UAE prison regular and uninterrupted access to lifesaving antiretroviral treatment, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Photo credit Daddy Alan Selby (right), aka Mr. S, and his boy, Johnie Garcia, at the National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights (1993); photographer unidentified; collection of the GLBT Historical Society.
Multimedia Exhibition Highlights San Francisco Leather Pioneer, Mr. S Leather Founder «Daddy» Alan Selby
A new exhibition opening May 16 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum recounts the story of «Daddy» Alan Selby, the founder of the iconic South of Market leather and kink emporium Mr. S Leather, within the context of a changing SoMa neighbourhood and the emergence of a distinct leather and kink culture.
Photo credit Melissa Hawkins, Duo With Cigar, The Eagle (undated); used with permission.
Photography Exhibition Highlights 1980s-1990s Queer Nightlife in SF
A new exhibition opening February 15 at the GLBT Historical Society Museum highlights the extraordinary vitality of queer nightlife in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) district during the darkest years of the AIDS crisis, an era that simultaneously marked the peak of AIDS activism and queer militant organising in the city.
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Remembering and responding on World Aids Day
Staff and students at Northumbria University will mark World AIDS Day by celebrating the life and work of a former academic, and launching two new initiatives aimed at highlighting the challenges faced by those living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).