Tag Archives: AIDS

Researcher Resigns After Confessing To Faking AIDS Vaccine Results

An Iowa State University professor has resigned after confessing that he falsified blood samples to make it appear that an AIDS vaccine was working. Dong-Pyou Han was an assistant professor of biomedical sciences. He resigned in October after admitting responsibility, an ISU spokesman said. The fraudulent results helped an ISU research team gain millions of dollars in federal money, according …

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Father Tony Is Doing The AIDS Ride

Father Tony is doing the Miami – Key West AIDS ride this weekend.  From Tony’s rider page where you can sponsor him: In high school, my idea of exercise was lip-synching Diana Ross. Now, as a 62 year-old gay adventure tour guide and travel writer, I want you to “stop, in the name of love” for a moment and consider …

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Father Tony Is Doing The AIDS Ride

I don’t know where he gets the energy, but in November our own Father Tony will participate in South Florida’s version of an AIDS ride.  From the SMART Ride about page: Like many things that change us and the world in some way, it starts with a dream, a vision, and an idea. The Southern Most AIDS/HIV RideTwenty-Thirteen is no …

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NYT Disses AIDS History Exhibit

AIDS In NYC: The First Five Years has been running all summer at the New York Historical Society.  Yesterday the New York Times issued a scathing review. After seeing this show, a newcomer to this history would be hard pressed to understand the rise of the street-activist group Act Up, the takeover of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters by …

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June 22nd: ACT UP Reunion In NYC

The alumni of ACT UP New York will hold a reunion on June 22nd from 6:30PM to 11PM. This community-building event, which we hope will be the first of several, will reunite ACT UP members who confronted the government’s malignant neglect of the AIDS crisis and turned our anger into action that saved countless lives.  We are honored to have …

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Sylvester’s Greatest Hits Re-Release To Benefit San Francisco AIDS Charities

As some of you doubtlessly know, Sylvester willed the future royalties from his catalog to San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund and Project Open Hand.  And just in time for gay pride, next month Fantasy Records will re-issue his greatest package on multiple formats. From the press release: Twenty-five years after his untimely death, the iconic legacy of Sylvester, the “Queen …

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Barbara Eden Headlines AIDS Fundraiser

An apparently ageless Barbara Eden took the stage in her Jeannie costume yesterday at Vienna’s Life Ball, which is the biggest AIDS fundraiser in Europe. She is 78, folks.  Also appearing at the event was Bill Clinton. (Via Boy Culture)

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Museum Exhibition Opening On June 7th: AIDS in New York: The First Five Years

Opening June 7th at the New York Historical Society:  AIDS in New York: The First Five Years will explore the impact of the epidemic on personal lives, public health and medical practices, culture, and politics in New York City and the nation. Drawing from the archives of the New York Public Library, New York University, and the National Archive of …

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HomoQuotable – Michelangelo Signorile

“For gay men over 40, it’s as if we’ve come back from a war that was far away and distant to most Americans even as it was happening — not unlike the actual wars we’ve experienced in this country in the past decade. All of us who were in the trenches of the AIDS war are today dealing with the …

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Honorary GOProud Chair Ann Coulter:
We All Have To Pay For Sodomy

Via Mediaite: During what was supposed to be a debate about NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s various “public health” laws — indoor smoking bans, hidden cigarette displays by mandate, bans on large sugary beverages, etc. — Ann Coulter attempted to flip the “liberal nannying” logic upside-down by bringing up illegitimacy, sodomy, AIDS, and gay bathhouses.  Suffice it to say the segment …

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HIGHLIGHTS: Broadway Backwards 2013

Monday night I attended Broadway Backwards, the annual benefit show by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which was wonderfully led by Tony Sheldon and my pal Jim Brochu, who played lonely older gay men looking for love in a world where most of their peers are gone due to AIDS. (Brochu was really looking, Sheldon was in denial and still mourning …

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ABC Buys How To Survive A Plague For Possible Mini-Series Development

Rights to the Oscar-nominated How To Survive A Plague have been purchased by ABC with the intent of turning the gripping documentary into a mini-series. France’s widely acclaimed doc, which he co-wrote and directed, focuses on two coalitions — ACT UP and Treatment Action Group (TAG) — whose activism and innovation helped turn AIDS from a death sentence into a …

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C. Everett Koop Dead At 96

Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, who was a hero to some gay activists and the enemy of conservative Christians for his handling of the early years of the AIDS crisis, has died at the age of 96. Koop wielded the previously low-profile post of surgeon general as a bully pulpit for seven years during the Reagan and George H.W. …

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Next Stop On The 6 Train: Koch Station?

As the funeral for former NYC mayor Ed Koch takes place today, we learn that there is a campaign to name the East 77th Street subway station for him. After Ed Koch is laid to rest today, a group of city officials will gather to push to name the 77th Street station on the 6 line after the beloved 105th …

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HomoQuotable – Richard Kim

“By January 1984, New York City under Koch’s leadership had spent a total of just $24,500 on AIDS. That same year, San Francisco, a city one tenth the size of New York, spent $4.3 million, a figure that grew to over $10 million annually by 1987. The mayor of San Francisco during those years was Dianne Feinstein, who like Koch …

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I Will Hold You Ten Times

As longtime readers know, there are four or five JMG entries that I repost every year. This is one of them. My dear friend Daniel Johnson, who threw the most kickass Groundhog Day birthday parties for himself, would have been 56 years old today. His was a life that burned brightly and I am illuminated still. Daniel Johnson, 1957-1997. I …

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Oscar Nomination For AIDS Documentary
How To Survive A Plague

The critically-raved AIDS documentary How To Survive A Plague was among the Oscar nominations today in the Best Documentary category. The film’s star, activist Peter Staley, issued a one-word response this morning on his Facebook page: “YAY!!”

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Membership

ABOVE: At the 1985 Xmas party described below: Me, Michael, and Barney. I also wrote about Barney here. Originally posted May 2004. Reposted for World AIDS Day. Membership  Michael didn’t look good. We were at his annual Christmas Luau party. Tons and tons of people in the house and the backyard. Standing in his kitchen, wearing a grass skirt and …

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Matt Barber: People With AIDS Are Sinners Who Deserve Their Gruesome Deaths

Just when you think God’s Gentle People™ could not possibly behave more repulsively, Christian leader Matt Barber proves you wrong.  Deliberately timed for World AIDS Day, obviously.

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UNAIDS Report: 50% Drop In New HIV Infections Across 25 Countries

The United Nations’ UNAIDS project today issued their annual report and there’s some promising news: Results, by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), shows that unprecedented acceleration in the AIDS response is producing results for people. The report shows that a more than 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections has been achieved across 25 low- …

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