November 23, 2024 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Category: AIDS


Happy Birthday to Ivy Bottini, 90

June 9, 2016

June 9, 2016 11

BY TROY MASTERS  |  Ivy Bottini is 90 years old today. Ivy was born on August 15, 1926 and at...

Pioneer: Larry Kramer

June 8, 2016

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BY MAER ROSHAN  |  Few people in the past five decades have played as pivotal and public a role in...

Pioneer: Connie Norman

June 8, 2016

June 8, 2016 12

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  “That’s Big Red over there. The tall one with the red hair,” one of a gaggle...

Pioneer: Phill Wilson

June 8, 2016

June 8, 2016 8

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  “Our house is on fire,” Black AIDS Institute founder Phill Wilson proclaims at every opportunity.  He’s...

Pioneer: Michael Weinstein

June 8, 2016

June 8, 2016 12

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Michael Weinstein is an AIDS activist. Full stop. He exercises his activist muscle as the co-founder...

We love these pictures of the AIDS/LifeCycle

June 8, 2016

June 8, 2016 6

AIDS/LifeCycle Ride to End AIDS,  the 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raises money to help in...

AIDS @ 35: Dr. Michael Gottlieb and the Early Years of AIDS

June 6, 2016

June 6, 2016 771

BY KAREN OCAMB | On June 5, 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published an article entitled “Pneumocystis Pneumonia” written...

Phill Wilson: Still answering the black AIDS call at 60

April 15, 2016

April 15, 2016 8

BY KAREN OCAMB   |  Well before the AIDS activist group ACT UP publicized the slogan “Silence=Death,” Black lesbian feminist poet Pat...

Hillary Clinton, in her own words…

March 12, 2016

March 12, 2016 763

Yesterday, when Hillary Clinton lauded Nancy Reagan for her “low-key advocacy”  in the fight against AIDS, LGBT and AIDS activists nearly broke...

Kaiser Permanente moves HIV drugs off Medicare specialty tier

February 17, 2016

February 17, 2016 705

BY SETH HEMMELGARN  |   Kaiser Permanente recently decided to remove HIV drugs from its potentially high priced “specialty tier” for...