Dec 1 is World AIDS Day

Thank you, OP.

Share your memories--

I came to NYC at the end of the AIDS epidemic. My neighbor dies of AIDS just a year before all the live-saving meds came out (around 1996). They were a miracle. The few sickly guys I would see in the neighborhood got healthy seemingly overnight.

Was looking at the tributes on the AIDS Memorial FB page.

😭

R3, link please

For many years Entertainment Weekly posted a tribute to all of the people involved in the entertainment field who had died from AIDS in the past year. I’ve kept all of those issues.

This is the 1994 edition, but the magazine included pictures of each of these people. ❤️

I had been aware of the ongoing cdc investigation into aids several weeks before that first MMWR came out. It still hit with an incredible force.

Many in the community and the private sector thought it would be something like poppers. Something really easy. That was not cdc thinking.

I was pretty sure it was going to be really bad right from the first. It was amazing how many fought against that idea.

Small crowd at the Noche de las Memorias AIDS Awareness event in Los Angeles tonight. 😔

David Archuleta was a guest performer and sang "The Prayer," "Proud Corazón," and "Afraid To Love."

Great performance.

If interested, skip to the 2 hour 11 minute mark where he comes on.

^^^ Sorry about the bad link above.

I guess because it was streaming as a live event while happening and is now over, the link no longer works, even though the video is still there.

Yet ANOTHER holiday in December that will require purchasing a gift, coordinating a potluck, and of course some type of selfie station for social media and content!!!! Why are we celebrating AIDS anyway? It was like a bad thing, way back when, right?

Maybe they mean to celebrate that only slightly more than 19,000 people still get HIV in the US every year (2022)

Jesus Fucking Christ R9. You self-absorbed, wretched cunt.

Nobody is celebrating AIDS. We are remembering and paying tribute to those who died and those who worked tirelessly looking after AIDS patients and those who worked tirelessly to discover medications which extended AIDS patients lives. We also celebrate living through what was thought to be a gay plague which caused much hatred and vilification of gay people for decades. We celebrate being alive in 2024 and how far we have come because being HIV+ is not the death sentence it once was.

Fuck you.

The video I was trying to post at R7 appears to be available now.

Again, Archuleta comes on at the 2 hour 11 minute mark.

R4 They also have their content on Instagram.

IG: theaidsmemorial

Be prepared to cry some days.

This photo always gives me pause.

In this 1993 image of the San Francisco Men’s Chorus, the singers in white represent the remaining living members of the original choir, while those in black represent those lost to AIDS.

(Click on link to see entire photo.)

To all that were ridiculed, shamed, ostracized-- your heart is strong. To those we have lost, may they rest in power forever.

R14 one hell of a visual. And explains why every gay friend or client I had in 1981 was, afaik, dead by 2000. Especially sad since we knew how to easily prevent HIV AIDS since 1983

Thank you for sharing that, R14.