Monthly Archives: December 2007
A Change Is Gonna Come!
Dec.1.2007 – 6:49 am
By Lee F. Carson
World AIDS Day always inspires me to reflect on how I started doing HIV prevention work for Black Gay men, which began officially, exactly 7 years ago today on December 1, 2000. I, at that time was thoroughly excited about landing a job with an organization in my hometown of Rochester, […]
Then and Now: 25 Plus Years of HIV/AIDS “What Has Changed?”
Dec.1.2007 – 6:32 am
By Michael Hinson
Over twenty-five years ago, an unknown phenomenon took center stage of the gay community and not much later, the world. In June of 1981, medical professionals began reporting, “alarming occurrences of a rare cancer (Kaposi’s Sarcoma) in otherwise healthy gay men”. As it was then termed, Gay Related Immune Deficiency […]