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[…] we are, what we did. We helped create that safety. JM: I didn’t know if living through the AIDS crisis and having your partner test positive for HIV at one point affected your sense of mortality. MS: That lover, eventually died of AIDS. During the early crisis of AIDS, he said something to me […]

[…] City, Victor Garber was starring on Broadway in the original cast of Noises Off when his best friend, a fellow actor, learned that he was living with HIV. “He lived in my apartment and died in my apartment,” Garber says. “I was on the stage and hearing these gales of laughter and then coming […]

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[…] LGBTQ people and issues. It is named in honor of the Los Angeles casting director who devoted the last part of his life to fighting homophobia and HIV stigma within the entertainment industry. Previous recipients of the Stephen F. Kolzak Award include: Jeremy Pope, Laverne Cox, Wanda Sykes, Jim Parsons, Ruby Rose, Chaz Bono, […]

[…] women of color who led the Stonewall Riots, to Colevia Carter, a Black Lesbian who began her work as an activist rallying women to the fight against HIV at the beginning of the epidemic, Black queer figures have always been instrumental in the push for LGBTQ equality and equity. Recognizing our roots, learning from […]

[…] for transgender and LGBTQ+ individuals in South Florida. Through TIG, Williams works in partnership with GLAAD and Gilead Sciences’ COMPASS Initiative,  to remain focused on ending the HIV epidemic in the South. Williams has worked with artists including Da Baby and Lil Nas X to support LGBTQ+ outreach, advocacy and education and has written […]

[…] have dangerous sex in parks  or with a serial killer, as had happened to a friend. I also did not want to  take the chance of bringing HIV home. I genuinely loved the woman  but needed to stop this charade.   My fiancée was disappointed, certainly, and even said that she was  still willing to […]

[…] “I was under the delusion for years that I was the only queer person in town,” said Jonathan Dunlap, 40, a Shoals Diversity Center board member and HIV Prevention Educator at Thrive Alabama—a major fiscal sponsor of RCP. Jonathan Dunlap (pictured-top) is a Shoals Diversity Center board member and HIV Prevention Educator at Thrive […]