On June 5, 2026, as part of the national “Seven Days in June” campaign, Atlanta advocates held a rally and vigil in Piedmont Park. We told our stories and vented our rage at an administration that is dismantling social safety net programs and gutting public health...
(This op-ed appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on June 4, 2026.) This Friday, June 5, is a sober anniversary in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It will mark exactly 45 years since the publication of the first medical report of what would become known...
I’m going to make this quick because this is happening right now and you should be joining in and not reading my blog. AIDS activism godfathers Cleve Jones and Sean Strub got their sizable brains together to create Seven Days in June, a national and nonpartisan...
Evany Turk is a woman living with HIV who recently became the co-executive director, with Marnina Miller, of the powerhouse organization Positive Women's Network USA (PWN), one of our country’s leading advocacy organizations. PWN has a diverse membership and its...
At the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in February, HIV activism icon Peter Staley delivered much more than a history lesson on the impact of HIV activism back in the day. He called the thousands of researchers and scientists...
Malcolm Reid has the X Factor, a compelling way about him that attracts your attention but which you can’t quite put your finger on. Saying so about him would probably make him grin and even blush, which only makes the case for his charms even stronger. Malcolm is 68...
The announcement on social media appeared everywhere all at once in late December, from Instagram to Facebook to X. “CASTING: People Living with HIV,” it trumpeted. After brief demographic requirements (no one past their 60s need apply), things got down to...
Thank you for being a reader, my friend. I appreciate you being along for the ride. Writing has been my outlet and my therapy. It began as a way to process my diagnosis in 1985, and only through some bizarre twist of fate have I stayed around to keep right on telling...
There is so much distance in my mother's eyes that I fear she may never come close to me again. Circling her stare are wrinkles of pain, betrayal even, and in her hand she holds the watch. It was December of my senior year of high school, and things had calmed down...
Broadway star and Emmy-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph has been added to a slate of celebrities and community leaders who will appear at a virtual event on Wednesday, December 17, benefitting The Reunion Project, an alliance of HIV/AIDS survivors. “Mark is 65” will...
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