AIDS

Living with HIV in 2021: Three gay men share their stories and how they fight the stigma

Homosexuality has historically been heavily stigmatized, but the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the ’80s and early ’90s—which disproportionately impacted the gay community—further fueled the rampant homophobia across the world. The first appearance of AIDS popped up in Los Angeles and New York in June 1981, mysteriously affecting gay...

What we can learn from the AIDS epidemic to help us endure another health crisis

February feels like a lifetime ago now with everything that has happened as a result of the coronavirus. Back then, I sat up at my kitchen table through the night into the painfully early hours of the morning working on my senior thesis. As I recounted the history of so...