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HIV and Aging Draw Big Crowd at Town Meeting

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Hundreds turned out for a town hall meeting on AIDS and aging that was convened in response to the death of a leading member of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. “A kind of bubble had burst,” said Peter Staley, a longtime gay rights and AIDS activist, referring to the [...]

May 13, 201367836 Comments2013-05-13+17%3A33%3A41adminRead More

Glick, Hoylman File Bill to Ban “Conversion Therapy”

BY ANDY HUMM | While California’s 2012 first-in-the-nation law to ban therapists from trying to turn gay minors into heterosexuals is being challenged in federal court, similar legislation was just introduced in the New York State Legislature — though without the backing of a strong coalition of LGBT and mental health groups. Its prospects in Albany [...]

May 8, 201367213 Comments2013-05-08+22%3A45%3A59adminRead More

Big Win for Lesbian Parents in Iowa

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The Iowa Supreme Court ruled on May 3 that a state law providing that the husband of a married woman who gives birth to a child is the presumptive father is unconstitutional to the extent that it doesn’t provide the same presumption of parentage for married lesbian couples. The high court [...]

May 8, 20136727No CommentBig+Win+for+Lesbian+Parents+in+Iowa+++2013-05-08+20%3A00%3A22adminRead More

HIV-Positive Wellness Can Be a Cooperative Push

BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | It was a very adventurous time,” explained Jared Becker, co-founder of the New York Buyers’ Club. There was only a moment’s pause before George Carter, another co-founder added, “It was a desperate time.” The challenging period in question was the rise of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the mid-1980s into the early ‘90s. [...]

April 24, 20136620No Comment2013-04-24+15%3A00%3A59adminRead More

Buoyantly, Urgently, AIDS Memorial Advocates Press for Funds

BY NATHAN RILEY | In an atmosphere of both celebration and anxiety, a capital campaign for the New York City AIDS Memorial was formally launched at a March 27 press conference, with a new rendering of the triangular park — reflecting the design’s latest tweaks — unveiled as the project’s board of directors made an appeal [...]

April 10, 20136495No Comment2013-04-10+17%3A40%3A13adminRead More

Unprotected Sex Leads to Aggravated Assault Verdict

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the conviction of an HIV-positive airman on charges stemming from group sex activities that he and his wife engaged in during which he did not disclose his sero-status and did not consistently use condoms. The charges included failure to obey a [...]

April 10, 20136488No Comment2013-04-10+16%3A15%3A16adminRead More

Surrounded by Labor Leaders, Quinn Announces Sick Leave Compromise

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Scarcely a week after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience of hundreds at an LGBT Democratic mayoral forum that she did not favor moving forward now on pending paid sick leave legislation, she announced a compromise measure to do just that at a March 29 City Hall press conference. The [...]

March 29, 2013638129 Comments2013-03-29+20%3A34%3A27adminRead More

Officials Now Voice Alarm Over Meningitis

BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | After saying for several months that it has the resources to address a meningitis outbreak among gay men in New York City, a senior official in the city’s health department told the New York Times that staff are “very scared” about the outbreak and are struggling to control it. And in a [...]

March 26, 201362365 Comments2013-03-27+03%3A00%3A38adminRead More

GMHC Fêtes Joy Tomchin

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a lavish dinner gala dubbed “Savor,” featuring a four-course dinner served up by renowned chefs, the Gay Men’s Health Crisis paid tribute to Joy A. Tomchin, a former board president who was the producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary “How to Survive a Plague,” and to the Keith Haring Foundation, [...]

March 26, 20136276No CommentGMHC+F%C3%AAtes+Joy+Tomchin2013-03-27+01%3A40%3A07adminRead More

Bailey House Marks 30 Years, Fêtes AIDS Pioneers

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | Bailey House, which during the mid-1980s established the nation’s first scatter-site housing and congregate care housing for people living with HIV/ AIDS, marks its 30th anniversary with an auction and gala at Chelsea Piers on March 28. Today, the agency maintains its original facility, Bailey-Holt House at the west end of Christopher [...]

March 13, 20136053No Comment2013-03-13+18%3A12%3A43adminRead More

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