For This Latinx Organization in San Francisco, HIV Care Is About Community
Skyrocketing rents have increased the need for the work of Instituto Familiar de la Raza -- yet have also made it difficult for them to maintain their own spaces.
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Latinx LGBT Advocates Meet in Atlanta to Discuss Strategies to Address Growing HIV Epidemic
Latinos in the Deep South helps to lead the charge for southern social-justice organizing to end HIV.
Latinx Organization Launches Campaigns to End Homophobia and Transphobia
The campaigns seek to address HIV in Latinx communities by mobilizing against homophobia and transphobia.
Hugo Salinas Is Gay. He Is Living With HIV. He Became Mayor of a Town in El Salvador.
This is his story.
Honoring the Life of Andy Velez, ACT UP Co-Founder and Longtime HIV Activist
The angelic troublemaker died May 14.
In a Climate of Fear, HIV Services for Latinx Women Give Strength to Immigrant Communities
"If you educate yourself, you can protect yourself," says Thelma Garcia, the HIV service director of East Los Angeles Women's Center. "Helping different women in my community is the passion that keeps me going."
In Tijuana, Caravan Migrants Met With Xenophobia and HIV Discrimination but Find Support
As the U.S. government shutdown carries on for nearly a month over border wall funding, many migrants caught in Tijuana amid discrimination get support from a steadfast HIV organization.
A Year of Lessons, and by Far the Hardest Year of My Existence
"I can't wait to start the year and optimistic that all of these trials were learning lessons," Maria Mejia writes.
Remembering Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, Scholar and HIV Activist, Three Years After His Death
"Horacio's desire for 'queer survival' is a consciousness we as queer, transgender people of color know all too well," writes Giuliani Alvarenga. "We understand that our bodies are marked with loss and painful memories."
On World AIDS Day, Remembering What the '80s Were Like for Latinx Gay Men in California
"Many of us who are younger don't know what those days were like," Giuliani Alvarenga writes. "But World AIDS Day should be a time when we remember those we have lost to the virus."
On World AIDS Day, I Reflect on My Journey and Dedicate Myself to Educating My Community About HIV
From growing up on the streets and being a gang leader to becoming an AIDS activist, educator, and long-term survivor, Alberto Perez Bermudez's HIV diagnosis changed his life forever.