Personal Stories

Actor Stephen Hart finds triumph after a sexual assault led to his HIV diagnosis.

'Still at Risk' is about long-term survivors, but it's for younger gay men too.

"Women are dying in here, and we need some advocacy and support," AIDS activist Joann Walker wrote from prison decades ago. 'Metanoia' features Walker, her contemporaries, and currently active women of color AIDS advocates.

Since being diagnosed with HIV at age 20, Thomas Davis has used his dance talent to educate and advocate.

Many creative folk say that art is in their blood. For Jordan Eagles, blood is in his art -- not simply as an artistic tool, but as a precious, universal life force.

Heaviness and hilarity are both present in Timothy DuWhite's solo stage show, Neptune

The passionate and prolific director talks about what it took to get this new version of the play mounted.

"The more I learn to live with my own complexity and contradictions, the more I'm willing to also allow those contradictions to be seen in the work," states poet Danez Smith.

Although he is a painter, digital artist, and print maker, MC Roodt works in both the art and health arenas. "I started out as an artist, actually, but very quickly moved into community spaces."

Thomas Davis has been living with HIV since 2013 and he has turned dance into a platform for self expression, motivation, and to end HIV stigma.