Inspiring Stories: Transgender People With HIV/AIDS

Chicagoan Joy Morris-Hightower is 45 years old and she's been living with HIV 27 years. Click here to read her story.

Remembering Tracy Bumpus, a Hero in the Battle for Transgender Rights (June 22, 2011)
In Housing Works AIDS Issues Update, from Housing Works
The First Few Months: A Transgender Woman Faces an HIV Diagnosis in the Rural U.S. (Posted: April 2011)
From TheBody.com
This Positive Life Video: An Interview With Dee Borrego (April 1, 2011)
"If we, as HIV-positive people, don't share our voices and let it be known that we're here, the community isn't going to keep record of us. They're not going to look out for us. They'll allow us to become an invisible minority."
From TheBody.com
Personal Perspective: The Trials of Transition (Summer 2010)
To read PDF, click here.
In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
Personal Perspective: "Come Back When You're Dressed Like a Man" (Spring 2009)
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In Achieve, from ACRIA and GMHC
Ginger Valdez: Glamour and Grit, Advocacy and Outreach (July/August 2008)
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Lois Bates (July/August 2008)
The essence of strength, courage and wisdom.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Joy Morris-Hightower (July/August 2008)
Survival and transcendence, blessed and not damned.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
One-On-One With Alexandra Billings (July/August 2008)
The star of stage and screen talks to PA about the importance of love, humor and her Chicago roots.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Breaking the Silence: Roberto, a Transgender Woman (2002)
In Breaking the Silence... (Rompiendo El Silencio), from AIDS Project Los Angeles

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