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  • AIDS Quilt: 25 Year Anniversary [video]

    By on June 27, 2012

    The AIDS Memorial Quilt has returned to Washington, D.C., where it will celebrate its 25th anniversary. The quilt, which now contains more than 48,000 panels...

  • AIDS Quilt's Double Duty

    By on June 21, 2012

    The AIDS Memorial Quilt, marking its 25th anniversary, is returning to D.C. The quilt, memorializing the victims lost to HIV/AIDS, was last displayed in full...

  • District Releases Annual HIV Report

    By on June 21, 2012

    The theme yesterday with regard to HIV/AIDS and other transmittable diseases affecting the District was that progress is being made, but there's certainly more work...

  • Home Front and ''Heroes''

    By on June 7, 2012

    Wallace Corbett knows HIV better than most. As co-chair of the DC Community Coalition (DCC), a cross-section of people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS...

  • Confronting the Virus

    By on May 10, 2012

    Think of it as the ''It Gets Better'' campaign for people affected by HIV. Washington-area blogger and HIV activist Justin B. Terry-Smith is asking people...

  • Christopher Barnhill

    By on May 2, 2012

    Christopher Barnhill may be only 25 years old. But to hear this Metro Weekly Next Generation Award winner tell it, he's already fulfilling his life's...

  • HIV Bills Moving Swiftly in D.C.

    By on April 19, 2012

    Two bills designed to increase awareness and promote a dialogue on HIV/AIDS between patients and service providers are closer to becoming law after being passed...

  • Global LGBT News Briefs: Ads and Infection

    By on April 19, 2012

    London Mayor Bans ''Conversion Therapy'' Bus Ads Advertisements promoting ''conversion therapy'' – which claims to make gay people straight – scheduled to run on some...

  • Whitman-Walker Touts Growth, Fiscal Health

    By on March 6, 2012

    Whitman-Walker Health, the local community health center specializing in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and LGBT health care, announced Monday that it is projecting an operating...

  • Don't Tell, Go to Jail

    By on January 19, 2012

    Two bills – one already introduced, one being drafted – in the Maryland General Assembly would classify transferring the HIV virus to another individual as...

  • Locals Mark World AIDS Day

    By on December 8, 2011

    About a hundred community members and religious and civic leaders gathered at dusk at the fountain in Dupont Circle Dec. 1 for a candlelight vigil...

  • World AIDS Day 2011

    By on December 1, 2011

    It is Dec. 1. It is time, again, to mark World AIDS Day. As with winter, soon to follow, one might say that AIDS is...

  • Battling the Blood Ban

    By on November 16, 2011

    Blood may be thicker than water. But a ban on blood donations may be thicker still. Members of George Washington University's Lambda Law, the LGBT...

  • Clinton's HIV Address

    By on November 10, 2011

    In a major address delivered Nov. 8 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that more than...

  • An Angry Heart

    By on November 3, 2011

    Larry Kramer, with his dog Charley, in his Manhattan home (Photo by Chris Geidner) Since the publication of Faggots in 1978, Larry Kramer has been...