Archive for September, 2012
Iowa Activists Advance in Push to Repeal HIV Criminalization Law
This week Iowa activists working to repeal a state law that criminalizes non-disclosure to sexual partners of one’s HIV positive status reported a big win as the state’s HIV planning council endorsed the goal of repealing the ineffective and unjust statute. Iowa is just one of many fronts of struggle against the misguided use of [...]
How to Survive a Plague – Documentary on HIV/AIDS Activism Releases In Select Cities – Get Free Tickets NOW!
HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE The most-anticipated documentary of the year, opens this Friday! New York - Los Angeles - Chicago - San Francisco
Dee Borrego: ‘How to Survive a Plague’ Screening and Discussion
By Dee Borrego, HIV PJA Steering Committee I was fortunate enough to attend an amazing film screening of “How to Survive a Plague” directed by filmmaker David France at AIDS 2012. Words cannot describe how this film moved me to really understand the history of the HIV epidemic in the US. Walking into the beautiful [...]
ACT UP Movie Coming to Chicago…And a City Near You!
This article was cross-posted from the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s ‘Inside Story’ Blog. By Gregory Trotter The acclaimed documentary, “How to Survive a Plague,” is slated to open in Chicago at the Music Box Theatre on Friday, Sept. 21. We expect it to be both a powerful reminder of the past and a clarion call [...]
VIDEO: How to Survive a Plague Trailer
Find out more about How to Survive a Plauge and opportunities to use the film to build the movement at: surviveaplague.com. Synoposis from the film’s website: Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young people, many of them HIV-positive young men, broke the mold as radical warriors taking on Washington and the medical [...]
