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Cynthia Slater (August 7, 1945 – October 26, 1989) was an American sex educator, HIV/AIDS activist, and dominatrix. She was the co-founder of the second BDSM organization founded in the United States (after The Eulenspiegel Society), [1] a San Francisco, California based BDSM education and support group known as the Society of Janus, which she founded with Larry Olsen in August 1974.
A demonstrator waves a placard using the "Silence=Death" slogan during a 2017 event in New York City.Activist groups focused on HIV/AIDS in the United States initially drew their numbers from the bisexual, lesbian, and male homosexual communities as a whole, with socio-political campaigns including culturally active patients who were struggling with their healthcare themselves.
American LGBT and AIDS activist, who conceived of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Featured in And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic and portrayed in Milk. [78] Cass Mann (1948–2009) AIDS activist/dissident and founder of the holistic AIDS charity Positively Healthy.
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.
A protest installation by AIDS activist group ACT UP, which shows an empty quote from Ronald Reagan representing his perceived silence on AIDS.. Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, oversaw the United States response to the emergence of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
AIDS activist Alison L. Gertz (February 27, 1966 – August 8, 1992) was an American AIDS activist in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Gertz died of AIDS-related pneumonia .
Hydeia Broadbent, the HIV/AIDS activist who came to national prominence in the 1990s as a young child for her inspirational talks to reduce the stigma surrounding the virus she was born with, has ...
McCaskell became aware of AIDS through reading the US news. [14] Although he was not formally diagnosed until testing became available in 1986, he suspected he had HIV as early as 1981. [15] [3] Since the late 1980s, McCaskell has been involved in HIV/AIDS activism, particularly with AIDS Action Now! (AAN), which he co-founded.