HIV/Aids awareness

Today is World AIDS Day with events and activities taking place across the globe and in upstate New York.

In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant. Out of the activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), an art collective that called itself Gran Fury formed to campaign against corporate greed, government inaction, stigma, and public indifference to the epidemic. Writer Jack Lowery examines Gran Fury’s art and activism from iconic images like the “Kissing Doesn’t Kill” poster to the act of dropping piles of fake bills onto the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Lowery offers a complex, moving portrait of a collective and its members, who built essential solidarities with each other and whose lives evidenced the profound trauma of enduring the AIDS crisis.

The AIDS Foundation of Western Massachusetts, which was formed almost 25 years ago, is closing down. The board of trustees of the foundation has decided…

Today is the 11th annual National Women and Girls HIV-AIDS Awareness Day. The organizer of today’s events is the Office of Women’s Health, a division of…