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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.
Ricky Ray became an activist in the fight against stigma surrounding AIDS. In 1992, he allowed camera crews to document his declining health and stated he wanted to educate the public and raise awareness. U.S. President-elect Bill Clinton spoke to him and thanked him for his work raising awareness on AIDS. [6] Ricky Ray died in 1992 at age 15.
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.
Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author.After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS.
The late Joan Rivers is known as a pioneering woman in comedy, but she was also a pioneer in AIDS activism. The comedian was one of the first celebrities to lend her fame to the fight against AIDS ...
Frances Ruth Coker Burks (born March 19, 1959), [1] also known as the Cemetery Angel, is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis patients and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. [2] During the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a real estate agent to care for AIDS patients whose families and communities had abandoned them.
Since the first AIDS case was reported in 1981, some 25 million people have died from the disease. On this episode of The Switch Up, activists explain how they are working to educate communities ...