The BEST of Back2Stonewall: Remembering NYC’s Mineshaft – 835 Washington St....
At one time New York City’s Mineshaft was the most notorious “members only” gay S&M/B&D sex club in history and today it’s memory is treated as a dirty little secret by the assimilated A-Gay...
View ArticleHuge Drop Reported in HIV Cases In Gay Men In England Because of PrEP
The Telegraph reports: The downward trend was boosted by London, traditionally an area of high prevalence, where new cases among gay and bisexual men fell 29 per cent. Health officials said the...
View ArticleEvil Georgia GOP State Rep Wants People With HIV Quarantined Because They...
Project Q Atlanta: State Rep. Betty Price, a Republican from Roswell, suggested quarantining people living with HIV during a House study committee meeting addressing the barriers HIV-positive people...
View ArticleForgotten Gay History – The Infamous Adonis Movie Theater NYC (1975 – 1988)
The 1,433-seat Adonis Theater, was originally built as the Tivoli Theater in 1921 was one of a kind. A grandly opulent movie theater on Eighth Avenue and 51st Street which in its declining year was...
View ArticleThe Demonizing of Patient Zero: Science Proves Gaëtan Dugas Was A Victim Of...
Gaetan Dugas, the man blamed for spreading HIV across North America in the 1980s, referred to as “Patient Zero”, in Randy Shilt’s book : And The Band Played On has been exonerated and it has been...
View ArticleGay News Flashback – New York Times 11/14/1985: “BATHHOUSES REFLECT AIDS...
Reprinted from New York Times BATHHOUSES REFLECT AIDS CONCERNS By JANE GROSS Published: October 14, 1985 Attendance has declined at the 10 homosexual bathhouses in New York since the onset of the AIDS...
View ArticleTrump’s World AIDS Day Proclamation Makes No Mention Of The Diseases Impact...
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The first documented cases of the human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) 36 years...
View ArticleToday in Gay History – December 1st: World AIDS Day, Alvin Ailey, Puritan Sex...
December 1st: 1642 – The General Court of Connecticut adopted a list of 12 capital crimes, including “man lying with man.” The law was based on the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Body of Liberties of 1641...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Saint Vincent’s Hospital: Ground Zero For New York City’s AIDS...
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers or just, “St. Vinny’s” as the locals called it was located on 12th and 13th Street and 6th Avenue in NYC. At one time St. Vincent’s was the 3rd oldest hospital...
View ArticleGay History – December 9, 1985: SEX PANIC! The NYC Department of Health...
One of the few rare pictures of the St. Marks Baths café. The New St. Marks Baths was the premiere gay bathhouse in New York City located at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan from 1979...
View ArticleDonald Trump: “All Haitians Have AIDS”
The New York Times : According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller,...
View ArticleTrump Administration Fires All Members of the Presidential Advisory Council...
Donald Trump’s war on the gay community continues with suddenly, and with no explanation, the White House has terminated all members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS. Six members of...
View ArticleFlorida To Offer Free HIV Prevention Drug PrEP Statewide
The Florida Department of Health has announced plans to offer PrEP for free throughout the state by the end of the year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PrEP has been...
View ArticleHIV/AIDS Pioneer Researcher and Hero Dr. Mathilde Krim Passes Away At 91
Mathilde Krim, a pioneer in the field of AIDS research, passed away Monday at the age of 91. Krim, founding chairman of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, devoted her life to the fight against...
View ArticleGay History – 1976: First Discovered AIDS Cases Found In Zaire, Africa
Most of us set the start date of AIDS with the June 1981 when a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describing five gay men who had died of a mysterious disease in Los Angeles...
View ArticleIt’s Ronald Reagan’s Birthday: The Hateful Legacy of Ronald Reagan Who Let...
As Republicans and Tea Party members remember and celebrate the revisionist life history of Ronald Reagan on what would be his 107th birthday today. Let us, the friends, the family, and the loved ones...
View ArticleGay History – February 20, 1927: Roy Cohn One Of The Most Evil Men In History...
In our history we have heroes and villains And there could be no one more villainous and despicable in gay history than the monster named Roy Cohn. Cohn born to an observant Jewish family in The...
View ArticleReverend Billy Graham Dead at 99. What The Mainstream News Is Not Saying
Evangelist Billy Graham, deemed “America’s Pastor,” has died at the age of 99 reports the Associated Press. Graham’s giant Southern California tent revivals in 1949 would become widely recognized as...
View ArticleMarch 10, 1987: ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) Is Formed In NYC...
On this day in 1987, ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was effectively formed at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York. when Larry Kramer was asked to speak as part of a...
View ArticleForgotten Gay Heroes: Out Actor and Hollywood AIDS Warrior Tom Villard (1953...
Actor Thomas “Tom” Louis Villard appeared in dozens of projects throughout his career in the late 1980’s and early 90’s on television, in feature films, and on stage around the country. He was featured...
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