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[…] imagine it. Within five years, the Memphis woman had gone from a bright-eyed, ambitious college student to an on-again-off-again sex worker with an arrest record and an HIV diagnosis. 2012 also delivered a brutal blow — a prostitution conviction which, due to Tennessee’s strict laws regarding people living with HIV who are convicted of […]

GLAAD conducts annual research around HIV stigma, to better understand how much stigma still exists, the challenges we must overcome to end HIV-related stigma, and what the impact is on those living with HIV. In our research we have found that less than half (48%) of Americans feel knowledgeable about HIV, and there is […]

[…] in 2013, Michael L. Johnson, a young Black man, was arrested for allegedly failing to report to a white male sexual partner that he was living with HIV before engaging in condomless sex. In 2015, he was originally sentenced to thirty years in prison for “reckless transmission of HIV”– a sentence longer than almost […]

Held annually on December 1, World AIDS Day serves as a reminder to commemorate those who have lost their lives to HIV. To learn more about the cause, please visit worldaidsday.org  Among the important work and campaigns launching today in support of World AIDS Day comes the premiere of Sheryl Lee Ralph’s documentary Unexpected. […]

[…] gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is today releasing its “Local Media Accountability Index – U.S. South,” a measurement and evaluation of LGBTQ and HIV coverage in local news outlets across nine Southern states. Read the full report here. PDF here. GLAAD’s “Local Media Accountability Index – U.S. South” researched 181 […]

As HIV began to decimate the lives of Black gay men in the 1980s, Cornelius Mabin Jr. Founder and CEO of ARKANSAS RAPPS, began mobilizing members of Little Rock’s Black gay community to develop a survival plan in the living room of his small two-bedroom apartment. Without any financial assistance or official meeting space […]

[…] started. Are y’all ready?! pic.twitter.com/SjVxh2mX7C — jon batiste (@JonBatiste) June 21, 2022 Batiste’s performance was in collaboration with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative, to raise awareness of the HIV/AIDS crisis that continues to plague some of the Southernmost states in the U.S. The South is most affected by the HIV epidemic, accounting for 54% of […]

[…] AIDS Coalition to launch a major initiative bringing sections of the Quilt to communities in the southern United States as a teaching tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The next stop is Louisiana in February 2023. NAM is bringing sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to communities throughout the Southern U.S as part of […]