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Canadian AIDS Society — Seeking peer review! (I've expanded the article by 90% with credible citations.)
Donald Acheson (1926–2010) —
Chief Medical Officer for England , 1983–1991; biography doesn't mention his work on the Early AIDS Crisis at all
Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) — pediatric immunologist at
UCSF and expert in infantile
cytomegalovirus , who realised the US blood supply was contaminated with HIV; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Global Strategies obit ,
"A conversation with 3 viruses", with Ammann's thoughts on Asian Flu, Covid-19 and AIDS ,
San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series, volume 3 ,
review of his 2017 Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS ,
2017 interview with Journey with Jesus
John-Manuel Andriote (born 1958) — American journalist and author
Jacqui Banaszynski (born 1952) — journalist at the
St. Paul Pioneer Press and now a professor of journalism at the
University of Missouri , who won a
Pulitzer Prize for her 3-part series "AIDS in the Heartland", humanising AIDS by profiling a rural couple, one of whom became the 125th Minnesotan to die of AIDS on July 25, 1987, at the age of 37.
About the series ; parts
1 ,
2 ,
3 .
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947) — Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
Richard Berkowitz (born 1955) — New York sex worker, coauthor of
How to Have Sex in an Epidemic ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Mike Beuttler (1940–1988) — British
Formula 1 driver, only known LGBTQ+ driver to have raced at that level; died of AIDS in 1988
Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), chief scientific officer at
Gilead , involved in development of
tenofovir disoproxil ,
Truvada and (unrelated to HIV)
sofosbuvir and
Tamiflu ; see
article
George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) — US President during the early Crisis years. No mention of his approach to the AIDS Crisis (or lack thereof).
Gia Carangi (1960–1986) — "world's first supermodel", one of the first famous women to die of AIDS (having contracted HIV through her IV drug use).
Christopher Coe (1953–1994) — American novelist
Emmanuelle Cosse (born 1974) — French politician, activist and former president of
ACT UP-Paris
Spencer Cox (activist) (1968–2012) — activist at
ACT UP New York and
Treatment Action Group who helped design the
clinical trials that led to the introduction of
protease inhibitors . Lots of information in
How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
James W. Curran — head of the AIDS taskforce at the
CDC during the early AIDS Crisis. Lots of information in
How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
Demetre Daskalakis (born
c. 1973 ) — Greek-American physician and activist; NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014–2020), CDC Director of Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (from 21 Dec 2020).
HIV.gov announcement ,
CDC announcement ,
GMHC announcement ,
HIV Plus mag article ,
NBC article
Ellines biog
Martin Duberman (born 1930) — American historian, award-winning author of 2014 Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS
Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984) — Canadian flight-attendant, long misidentified as "
patient zero " of the North American AIDS Crisis; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Richard Feachem (born 1947) — HIV/AIDS researcher
Nigel Finch (1949–1995) — English filmmaker. A little more in the foreword to the 2021 reissue of
Simon Garfield 's The End of Innocence ,
excerpted in full for Esquire ; his boyfriend
Rupert Haselden , whose interview forms the foreword, might also be notable?
David France (writer) (born 1959) — American writer and filmmaker, Stonewall Book Award winner
Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (born 1938) —
Secretary of State for Health and Social Services during the start of the AIDS crisis in the UK, his Start-class biography makes little reference to the impact he had on the British government having a response, let alone its content. Was instrumental in UK govt sending a leaflet to every household in the UK in February 1987, the biggest AIDS-related public health campaign in the world at the time. [Edits made]
Gao Yaojie (高耀潔 , 1927–2023) — AIDS activist who revealed China's AIDS epidemic, including the
Bloodhead scandal due to the
Plasma Economy in Henan. Articles:
Christian Science Monitor ,
Human Rights Watch ; biogs:
Vital Voices ,
China.org.cn ,
Institute for the Study of Human Rights ; obits:
The Guardian ,
South China Morning Post ,
NPR ,
Time ,
Financial Times ,
New York Times ,
Washington Post ,
BBC ,
France24 ,
Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
Elizabeth Glaser (1947–1994) — AIDS campaigner after having contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in childbirth; her daughter Ariel (1981–1988) was infected through breastfeeding and her son Jake (born 1984) was infected in utero is an
elite controller with the mutation
CCR5-Δ32 . Her
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has reached an estimated 20 million women worldwide, testing 17 million, and enrolling more the 2.2 million in its HIV care and support program:
Plus
Gregg Gonsalves (born 1963) — cofounder of the
Treatment Action Group , associate professor at
Yale School of Public Health and 2018
MacArthur Fellow . Lots of information in
How to Survive a Plague and in his
MacArthur biog . He's also been very active in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Vincent Hanley (1954–1987) — one of the first men to die of AIDS in Ireland. A little more information from
Irish Queer Archive on Instagram.
Mark Harrington (born 1958 or 1959) — cofounder of the
Treatment Action Group and 1997
MacArthur Fellow . Lots of information in
How to Survive a Plague and in his
MacArthur biog .
Terry Higgins (1945–1982) — one of the first men to die of AIDS in the United Kingdom,
Terence Higgins Trust , the UK's biggest service organisation, was founded in his memory
Amber L. Hollibaugh (1946–2023) — American writer, filmmaker and political activist. Sources:
Google Scholar ; sources for
The Heart of the Matter :
IMDb ,
TCMDb (US only),
PBS , ACT UP NYC
part 1 and
part 2 ,
Variety review
Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser) (1942–1993) — assistant to
Andy Warhol , boyfriend of
Halston
Ed Koch (1924–2013) —
Mayor of New York 1978–1990, during the height of the AIDS Crisis;
How to Survive a Plague offers the potential for expansion about this aspect of his mayoralty.
Mathilde Krim (1926–2018) — early AIDS researcher and funder of
Joseph Sonnabend ; cofounder of
amfAR ; held a press conference to attempt to calm the argument between
Robert Gallo and
Luc Montagnier over the discovery of HIV. Mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague . Obits:
NYT ,
Peter Staley ,
AIDS History project ,
TAG
Josh Kruger (1984–2023) — US activist. Coverage includes
profile on injectables in Poz , 2023
Dennis Levy (born 1948) — CEO and founder of Black and Latino AIDS Coalition.
James O. Mason (born 1930) — CDC director during the AIDS Crisis; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Rodger McFarlane (1955–2009) — first executive director of
Gay Men's Health Crisis ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
David Mixner (1946–2024) — American activist and author.
ITN nomination for his death was declined, due to too much maintenance required. Obits:
CovidHealth.com
Paul Monette (1945–1995) — American author, poet and activist based in
West Hollywood
Luc Montagnier (born 1932) — Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
Ann Northrop (born 1948) — American author, active in
ACT UP New York City. More information in
Let the Record Show
Judith Peabody (1930–2010) — New York socialite and philanthropist, active fundraiser for
Gay Men's Health Crisis ,
People With AIDS Coalition ,
Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and the development of an AIDS research laboratory at
New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center .
Cindy Patton (born 1956) — American sociologist and historian specialising in the history of the AIDS epidemic
Mark Patton (both 1958) — American actor, first male
scream queen as lead in
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and subject of
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (which will be a useful ref, see
Lee Mandelo's review )
Ron Penny AO (1936–2019) — immunologist, made first AIDS diagnosis in Australia.
Obit from JWire
John Preston (American author) (1945–1994) — American writer, editor and pornographer
Lisa Power (born 1954) — British LGBT and AIDS activist, cofounded
Stonewall , policy director of
Terrence Higgins Trust , ex-
ILGA Secretary General, HIV policy officer in London during the early Crisis years
Ken Ramsauer (died 1983, aged 27) — first person with AIDS to be subject of a national
network television news special in the US, being interviewed by
Geraldo Rivera on
20/20 ; see
NYT obit
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — US President during the early Crisis years. Section "Response to AIDS epidemic" is very brief and minimises his inaction; see
Buzzfeed
Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) — US First Lady during the early Crisis years. No mention of
Rock Hudson or her inaction around AIDS; see
Buzzfeed
Steve Rubell (1945–1989) — nightclub owner and hotelier, founder of
Studio 54 , died of AIDS
Mark Schoofs — US journalist, won a
Pulitzer Prize at the
Village Voice for reporting on AIDS
Sarah Schulman (born 1958) — American novelist, playwright, historian and lesbian rights activist. Several of her written works are redlinked below.
Good interview with Jacobin about Let the Record Show
Randy Shilts (1951–1994) — American journalist, author of Stonewall Book Award winner
And the Band Played On ; died of AIDS
Joseph Sonnabend (1933–2021) — lots of information in
How to Survive a Plague not covered in his GA-class biography, including his own bisexuality and sex life, his move to New York City and much of his work during the AIDS Crisis. Also,
this interview with Patrick Strudwick has more about his background, his time in NYC and his interest in music and composition. It might be worth contacting Buzzfeed to see if they'll release any of their photos on an Open licence (though now he's dead that's less of a concern).
NYT obit ,
Brian Deer Sunday Times piece from 1992 .
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) — very little about her and AIDS
Larry Speakes (1939–2014) — White House Press Secretary for most of the Reagan administration; very little about his jokes and repeated indifference to the AIDS Crisis. Refs:
When AIDS was Funny , a short film via Vanity Fair ;
VF article 1 Dec 2015 ;
Washington Post 1 Dec 2015 ;
New York magazine Dec 2013 ;
Vice 1 Dec 2015 ;
Buzzfeed 2 Dec 2013 ;
FT 7 Dec 2016
Juan Suárez Botas (1958–1992) — inspiration for
Jonathan Demme to make
Philadelphia . Stub is almost entirely based on his NYT obit; more about him in
Rolling Stone interview with Demme .
Sandra Thurman — US public servant, director of
ONAP under Bill Clinton, chief strategy officer at
Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and
PEPFAR , senior advisor for strategy and development at
CDC , director (and faculty member) at
Rollins School of Public Health ; honoured with an "
Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS award " in 2021. Biogs:
Rollins SPH ,
Clinton White House ,
WebMD ,
Robert Carr Fund ; Liz Taylor award:
Variety ,
THR ,
ETAF ; Clinton appointment:
Sandra Thurman named as new 'AIDS Czar'. (Q48831839) [Edits made]
Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智 , 1950–1990) — Hong-Kong-born American photographer, active in the East Village art scene, brother to
Muna Tseng and frequent photographer of
Keith Haring 's work. Refs:
NYT retrospective ,
Apple Daily retrospective (in Chinese) ,
NYT obit ,
Visual AIDS biog . Artist's site (by sister):
mid-length biog ,
longer biog
Urvashi Vaid (1958–2022) — Indian and American activist, lawyer and writer; ED of US
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and AIDS activist. Almost no mention of her work during the Early AIDS Crisis. Refs:
Advocate obit ,
LA Blade obit ,
memorial thread from
Sarah Schulman
Paul Volberding — HIV/AIDS researcher, founded the first inpatient ward for people with AIDS in the
San Francisco General Hospital ; mentioned in several SF sources, including several of the references cited at
Bobbi Campbell , such as
Andriote 1999
Mark Wainberg (1945–2017) — discovered
3TC ,
IAS president 1998–2000, founded
JIAS in 2004. See
POZ.com obit .
Edmund White (born 1940) — American novelist and biographer, co-founder of GMHC
Rupert Whitaker (born 1963) — cofounder of
Terrence Higgins Trust , ex-boyfriend of
Terry Higgins
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Lawrence Altman — journalist at
The New York Times , wrote the first news article about AIDS; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Gregg Alton , EVP Corporate and Medical Affairs at
Gilead Sciences ; see
profile ,
NAACP article ,
@greggalton ;
File:Gregg Alton crop 2012 CHF HIV AIDS 058.jpg
Robert Atkins (art historian) — art historian, author and founder of
Visual AIDS . Ref:
Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
Duke Armstrong (1949–1988) — San Francisco lawyer, leatherman and Republican Party activist, president of the board of Concerned Republicans for Individual Rights. Sued on behalf of bathhouses closed during the early Crisis Years.
Papers available offline at GLBT Historical Society. Mentioned in Leo Herrera's
Fathers Project #4 (NSFW!), a fictional imagination of what might have been, without AIDS.
Elizabeth Balgobin (1965/66–2024) — British charity leader, CEO of
Blackliners , the UK's first organisation for Black people affected by HIV and AIDS, trustee of
National Emergencies Trust , head of ED&I at the
Chartered Institute of Fundraising ; previously founding chair at
Voice4Change England and grant officer at
BBC Children in Need . Biogs:
National Emergencies Trust . Interviews:
On (her own) Mental Health ,
On Covid 2nd-order effects ,
On honours ,
Career retrospective (podcast),
In Cause & Effect on Medium . Obits:
National Emergencies Trust ,
Third Sector magazine ,
Civil Society magazine ,
short thread from Marc Thompson (with a mention of a podcast, but you'd need to listen to all 4h43m or 5h54m to find the right interview)
Karen Beckerman — San Francisco (and now New York) obstetrician, authored first paper suggesting antiretroviral treatment would reduce transmission (
IAS Conf 1998, abs 459 ,
review ).
IAS profile ,
UKCAB training transcript ,
UCSF mag 15 :42 ,
HTB meeting review 2002 ,
HTB paper review 2002 ,
BBC . Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
Lucy Bradley-Springer — academic researcher, editor of
J. Assoc. Nurses AIDS Care , resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
UC Denver . Citations:
PubMed ,
ResearchGate ,
AETC ,
OCLC WorldCat . Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
Nancy Brooks Brody
(1962–2023) — American artist and activist, cofounder of
fierce pussy and
ACT UP member; exhibited in
MoMA as a part of
Greater New York, 11 Oct 2015 – 7 Mar 2016 . Her website:
www.nancybrooksbrody.com ;
Oral history interview at Smithsonian ;
Interview from Visual AIDS ;
Profile at Mutual Art . Obit:
ArtForum ,
Art News ,
Justin Vivian Bond (on Instagram)
Gina Brown (born 1965 or 1966) — social worker and community organiser, resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
PACHA ,
LinkedIn ,
HIV PJA ,
The Well Project . Interviews:
Vox ,
NOLA Times-Picayune ,
HIV Positive magazine ,
HIVE Online (video) . Note, this is Gina Brown MSW, not
Gina Brown MD from
NIH Office of AIDS Research. Note: She is not
Gina Brown (Q39274495) .
Françoise Brun-Vézinet [
fr
— French virologist who helped discover HIV; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Ulysses Burley III — doctor and religious leader, resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
PACHA ,
World Council of Churches ,
autobiog ,
GreatBlackSpeakers.com . Interviews:
Black Collegian ,
NPR
Michelle Collins-Ogle — healthcare worker, resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
PACHA ,
PIDS video ,
Am Assoc HIV Med
LinkedIn ,
BuzzFeed ,
Newsweek . Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
Delores Dockrey (died 2020) — New Jersey activist and leader; died of
Covid-19 . See
Poz 100 honouring and
Poz.com obit
Richard Dworkin — New York activist, boyfriend of
Michael Callen ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Darrel Ellis
(1958–1992) — American artist, died shortly before a MoMA exhibition including his work.
Poz.com article
Roger Enlow — official AIDS liaison for
New York City municipal government; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Alvin Friedman-Kien — coauthor of first paper linking AIDS and
Kaposi's sarcoma ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague . See
New York magazine feature and
NYU biog . Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
Gary Garrels — art curator (formerly at
MoMA ,
Dia Art Foundation and
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ) and founder of
Visual AIDS . Ref:
Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
Aileen Glutzer - nurse who appears in
We Were Here (film) . Articles:
Cool Grey City of Love ,
Nature Medicine Blog ,
San Francisco Chronicle ,
Curating an Archive of Feelings: Tracing Lesbian Narratives Through the AIDS Crisis into 21st Century Queer Collections & Spaces
Grissel Granados (born 1986) — healthcare worker, resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
PACHA ,
HIV Plus mag ,
LinkedIn . News:
BuzzFeed ,
Newsweek
John Hanning (born 1961) — positive artist named to
Out ' s
OUT100 in 2017 ; author of Unfortunate Male (2015), creator of exhibition
I Survived AIDS (2017). See also Visual AIDS:
biog ,
review of Unfortunate Male ;
Printed Matter book review ;
book details
Ronald Johnson (HIV activist) (born
c. 1948 ) — first NYC citywide coordinator for AIDS policy (1992–1997), associate ED policy at
GMHC (1997–2006), member of
PACHA (1996–2001), VP policy & advocacy at
AIDS United (2011? – 2017) As of June 2023
[update] is
chair of US PLWHIV Caucus ; recognised by
ETAF and others in 2018 (
Desert Charities News ); profiled
in Plus in 2018 ,
in POZ in 2021 ; quoted by
The Body in 2019 ,
Positive Women's Network in 2021 ,
SAGE USA in 2023 ;
co-authored op-ed in the Washington Blade and
called for SOGI&SH training in NY state in 2020; mentioned in
Poz at 40th anniversary of Denver Principles
Philippe Mangeot [
fr
(born 1965) — former president of
ACT UP-Paris
Christophe Martet [
fr
(born 1959) — journalist, former president of
ACT UP-Paris
Patrick O'Connell (artist)
(1953–2021) — artist and activist; founding director of
Visual AIDS . Obits:
NYT ,
Plus ,
UNAIDS ,
LA Blade ,
Gay Times ;
Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders (and
in POZ ); POZ interviews:
1 Jun 1997 ,
27 Jul 2015
Charles Ortleb — publisher and editor of
Christopher Street and the
New York Native and prominent
AIDS dissident ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
Helen Schietinger — nurse coordinator of UCSF's first AIDS clinic, worked with the
AIDS Action Council and
Red Cross Societies as an AIDS consultant; now active in
Witness Against Torture (an anti-
Gitmo organisation). Co-coordinator of the Fifth National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, contributing to the
Denver Principles demanded there (see
Callen, 1988 and
Poz , 2023 ); interviewed in
The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of the Nursing Profession, 1981–1984, volume I . The San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley . 1999. (cited in
Bobbi Campbell ), wrote a chapter in
What to Do about AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues , writes for
Sojourners , mentioned in
Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote. Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of
The impact of 9/11 on HIV policy and politics (Q34945295) , so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
Scott Schoettes — HIV project director at
Lambda Legal , resigned from
PACHA in 2017. Biogs:
PACHA ,
Lambda ,
HuffPo .
The Seattle Lesbian , on award ,
The Body , on appointment at Lambda . Interviews:
AIDS Chicago ,
BuzzFeed ,
Newsweek . Articles:
HuffPo on Obamacare, 2012 ,
speech to 2013 Lavender Law conference, via POZ.com
Linda Scruggs (born
c. 1964 ) — co-exec-director of US service organisation Ribbon, founding member of Positive Women's Network USA, founding member of US National Black Woman HIV Network.
Mentioned by Barack Obama when launching his National HIV/AIDS Strategy ; profiled
in Poz in 2012 ,
in Plus in 2015 ;
mentioned in The Lancet and
Poz ,
quoted by UNAIDS on 40th anniversary of Denver Principles. Biogs on
LinkedIn ,
Ribbon and
The Well Project .
Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) — art historian and founder of
Visual AIDS , formerly chief curator at the
Chrysler Museum of Art , director of
The Andy Warhol Museum , director of
Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and member of jury for
Flight 93 National Memorial . Refs:
Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders ;
Carnegie Museums biog ; obits:
NYT ,
Art news ,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ,
Rutgers ,
Visual AIDS
David Stuart (sexual health activist) (
c. 1965 – 2022;
ORCID
0000-0003-4056-6730 ) — support worker at
56 Dean Street in London, coined the term "
chemsex " and was interviewed at length in
the 2015 docu film of the same name .
Autobiog ; Obits:
PinkNews ,
FilterMag ,
London Friend ,
GayTimes ,
Attitude ,
AIDS Healthcare Foundation ,
Scottish Drugs Forum ,
VIH.org (in French) ,
from a friend . Other links:
Op-ed on chemsex for Plus magazine ,
Stuart on 1985 film Buddies ;
2014 podcast interview ,
2013 paper: "Sexualised drug use by MSM: background, current status and response" (pp6–10)
Tim Sweeney (activist)
(born 1954 or 1955) — director/CEO of
Lambda Legal ,
Gay Men's Health Crisis ,
Empire State Pride Agenda and
Gill Foundation , amongst others; winner of
Judith Peabody award. See
Gay City News piece from Judith Peabody award
Dan Turner (AIDS activist)
(died 1990, aged 42) — San Francisco-based playwright, previously personal secretary to
Tennessee Williams ; founder of
People With AIDS movement. See
How to Survive a Plague ,
Andriote 1999 and obits:
NYT ,
LA Times
Cleews Vellay [
fr
(1964–1994) — former president of
ACT UP-Paris .
Pietro Vernazza — HIV/AIDS researcher in
St. Gallen , Switzerland, author of the
Swiss statement that
undetectable = uninfectious. See
IAS 2017 interview ,
ResearchGate ,
TheBodyPro , background and impact of the Swiss statement (
Medical Brief ZA ,
NAM UK ),
professional biography . Mentioned in
author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once he has a Wikidata item created.
Michael Waldholz — US journalist, won a
Pulitzer Prize at
The New York Times for his AIDS reporting
56 Dean Street — London sexual-health clinic, the largest in Europe and heavily involved work around
PrEP ;
really good Gay Times article on Dean Street Express for its 10th anniversary
ACT UP-Paris [
fr
(founded 1989) — French
direct action group
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (founded 1987) — lots of information about litigation and condoms-in-porn stuff that could do with condensing and summarising; no mention of Michael Weinstein's controversial stance on
PrEP
aidsmap (founded 1987) — website and leaflet publisher providing information to non-scientific audience
amfAR (founded 1983) — research charity headquartered in New York
Blackliners (founded 1989, registered charity 1992, closed 2003) — UK service organisation focussing on Black PWA.
Mention of founding in Pink News interview with Marc Thompson ,
Wellcome Collection items ,
Black Cultural Archives ref ,
US NIH National Library of Medicine: poster ,
Ethnic Minority publications: HIV graphic comms archive ,
JSTOR OA poster ,
full JSTOR image search ,
archived website ,
interview with co-founder Dawn Hill ,
Evidence to UK Parliament Health Select Committee (and following pages),
Mem & Arts at UK Charity Commission
Canadian AIDS Society — Seeking peer review!
Contaminated blood scandal in France — the French article
Affaire du sang contaminé has more information that could be used to expand it.
Day Without Art (founded 1989) — annual AIDS-awareness event
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (founded 1988) — nonprofit working to prevent pædiatric AIDS. should only need a little effort to reach
Good Article status, at which point it could be
nominated for Did You Know?
Gay Men's Health Crisis (founded 1982) —
AIDS service organization headquartered in (and primarily serving) New York City
New York Native (published 1980–97) — New York magazine that became a prominent
AIDS dissident publication, edited by
Charles Ortleb ; mentioned in
How to Survive a Plague .
People With AIDS — article could do with cleanup more than expansion. In the 40th anniversary month of the
Denver Principles (redirects to the PWA article; could be split out?),
POZ.com reprinted
Mark S. King ’s 30th-anniversary article “
How the Denver Principles Changed Health Care Forever ” from 2013
Red Hot Organization — might just need review; the article is pretty long already.
Terrence Higgins Trust (founded 1982) — largest
AIDS service organization in the United Kingdom
TheBody.com (founded 1995) — a magazine website and HIV/AIDS resource headquartered in New York City, founded by
James D. Marks , to which this article redirected before his biog was deleted
Visual AIDS — needs expansion and visuals (email sent for permission)
AIDS and Its Metaphors — 1989 work of critical theory by
Susan Sontag
AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance — 1987 UK public health campaign. Can probably be expanded from National Archives; they ran an event for LGBTQ+ History Month in 2021 mentioning that John Hurt reads the voiceover with "Here is something new, dangerous, alien", given that he was previously known for
Alien (1979) — and presumably also for
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) , though they didn't mention that in the event.
Angels in America — 1993
Pulitzer ,
Tony and
Drama Desk Award -winning play by
Tony Kushner
Angels in America (miniseries) — 2014 TV miniseries adaptation, directed by
Mike Nichols , awarded multiple
Golden Globe and
Emmy Awards
Art of the AIDS Crisis — very few images and the prose could be substantially longer
The Blackwater Lightship — 1999 novel by
Colm Tóibín , short-listed for the
Booker Prize
Blond Ambition World Tour — 1990 concert tour by
Madonna . There is no mention of the safer-sex advocacy Madonna did during the show and only a fleeting mention of
Keith Haring ; the documentary
Strike a Pose shows a bunch of this.
Christodora — 2017 novel by Tim Murphy
Close to the Knives — 1991 memoir by
David Wojnarowicz
Dallas Buyers Club — 2013 film by
Jean-Marc Vallée . Needs updating to reflect
Peter Staley 's comments in his 2021 book Never Silent , including the initial inclusion of of
AIDS denialism and the straightwashing of
Ron Woodroof , summarised in
this 2021 Vanity Fair article . The Melisa Wallack interview mentioned here
may still be online
Early AIDS Crisis — currently a redirect to a section of
History of HIV/AIDS , but we lack a good article describing the early Plague Years in "the West"
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS — 1994 nonfiction by
Simon Garfield , reissued in 2021.
Foreward was excerpted in full in Esquire
The Farewell Symphony — 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by
Edmund White
"
For a Friend " — 1988 single by
The Communards
The Green Road (Enright novel) — 2015 novel by
Anne Enright , long-listed for the
Booker Prize
The Heart of the Matter (documentary film) — 1994 documentary film about HIV/AIDS among American women by
Amber L. Hollibaugh (1946–2023). Currently a redirect to Hollibaugh's biography. Sources:
IMDb ,
TCMDb (US only),
PBS , ACT UP NYC
part 1 and
part 2 ,
Variety review
It's a Sin (TV series) — 2021 British TV series. Sources:
Gay Times conversation with actress Lydia West and Jill Nader , the actress
who the character of Jill was based on ;
Gay Times conversation with actor Omari Douglas and Black 1980s musician Andy Polaris ;
Buzzfeed conversation with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies and actor Olly Alexander on experiences of growing up gay in the UK ;
Radio Times interview with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies on casting queer actors for queer roles ;
Radio Times interview with RTD after show's completion
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 — 2021 non-fiction book by
Sarah Schulman
The Line of Beauty — 2004
Booker Prize –winning novel by
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty (miniseries) — 2006 TV miniseries adaptation, written by
Andrew Davies and directed by
Saul Dibb
The Lost Child of Philomena Lee — book (about
Philomena Lee ) by
Martin Sixsmith , adapted to
Philomena (film)
My American History — 1995 collection of journalism, by
Sarah Schulman
The Normal Heart — 1985 play by
Larry Kramer , largely autobiographical, which won multiple
Tony Awards in its 2011 revival
The Normal Heart (film) — 2014 TV movie adaptation, written by Kramer and directed by
Ryan Murphy
People in Trouble (novel) — 1990 novel by
Sarah Schulman , with very similar plot to
Rent (musical)
Rat Bohemia — 1995 novel by
Sarah Schulman , named one of the 100 best LGBT books by the
Publishing Triangle
"
Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough) " — 1990 single by
Jimmy Somerville
Red Hot + Blue — needs formatting properly and some expansion
Sex Positive — 2008 documentary film about
Richard Berkowitz
Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America — 1998
Stonewall Book Award -winning book by
Sarah Schulman
Strike a Pose — 2016 documentary about
Madonna 's
Blond Ambition World Tour
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP — 2012 documentary film by
Jim Hubbard and
Sarah Schulman
Veronica (2005 novel) — 2005 novel by
Mary Gaitskill ,
National Book Award finalist
"The Way We Live Now" (short story) — 1986 short story by
Susan Sontag , described as "a signature work in the literature of the epidemic"