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[…] last night saw a direct appeal to their generation’s greatest strengths and their collective power as change agents in the world. The message: Your Generation Can End HIV. The messages in front of the Prudential Center, host of the VMAs, delivered stark facts from GLAAD’s fourth annual State of HIV Stigma Study showing an […]

Where We Are on TV 2023-2024 Representation of LGBTQ Characters Living with HIV Jonathan Bailey as Time Laughlin – Fellow Travelers GLAAD’s 2023 State of HIV Stigma study, conducted in partnership with Gilead Sciences, found that TV was the medium through which the most audiences saw stories of people living with HIV, with 30 […]

[…] 2024, the Regency Hotel in New Orleans, LA, was host to the BLK in the South Summit, a groundbreaking one-day event focused on the Black community’s response to HIV in the Southern United States. This served as an official pre-conference to the United States Conference on HIV/AIDS, and with the theme, Southern Joy, a summit […]

GLAAD will be hosting its first HIV Stigma and Faith Summit from Wednesday, February 24 to Friday, February 26. The three-day virtual event will train and educate leaders to better address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southern region of the United States. GLAAD is hosting the event along with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative ®, […]

2024 State of HIV Stigma Report The Power of an HIV Story: Pedro Zamora and The Real World This year marks the 30th anniversary of the airing of Real World San Francisco on MTV, which featured Pedro Zamora, who was the first reality TV personality to publicly share their HIV status. By the time […]

Emmy and GLAAD-Award winning actor Billy Porter today appeared on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter to speak about living with HIV. “The tremendous levels of stigma facing people living with HIV today can only be broken by icons like Billy Porter showing the world that HIV is not at all a barrier to […]

2024 State of HIV Stigma Report Media Case Study: How Misinformation Paints HIV as a “Bogeyman” Everyone knows the mythology of the vampire: they are villainous, mysterious blood-sucking fiends. While many people know a lot about vampires, fewer know about “vampire facials,” the colloquialism for a platelet-rich plasma facial, in which platelets are taken […]

“We have to do a better job in educating our youth. They’re bearing the burden of this virus.” For years, the public face of the HIV epidemic has been made up almost entirely of white gay men. There have been a few prominent exceptions, like Magic Johnson and Ryan White, but the bulk of […]