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The GMHC (formerly Gay Men's Health Crisis) is a New York City–based non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based AIDS service organization whose mission statement is to "end the AIDS epidemic and uplift the lives of all affected."
Larry Kramer, who later left GMHC to found ACT UP, frequently fought with Popham.Kramer wrote in Reports from the Holocaust that, as a result, when writing the roman à clef play The Normal Heart, Kramer made the protagonist Ned Weeks (the cypher for himself) be obnoxious and Bruce Niles (the cypher for Popham) be a clearly sympathetic leader, by way of contrition.
April 18: Larry Kramer resigns from the GMHC board [16]: 275 April 30: The GMHC sponsors the first major fundraising event for AIDS, a benefit performance of a benefit performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at Madison Square Garden. The program listed an official proclamation of "Aid AIDS Week" from Mayor Koch.
The last position that he held was with the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), an organization that still assists and advocates for gay men with HIV/AIDS, particularly gay Black men. [ 7 ] Harris' work involved sexual health education, with a focus on helping people of color.
Playwright Robert Chesley responded to Kramer's New York Native article, saying, "Read anything by Kramer closely, and I think you'll find the subtext is always: the wages of gay sin are death". [1] The GMHC ousted Kramer from the organization in 1983. Kramer's preferred method of communication was deemed too militant for the group. [34]
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At GMHC's 1997 AIDS Walk in Central Park, Christopher was a keynote speaker, along with Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, and Rosie Perez. ... At the time of his death ...
General Hospital just bid goodbye to a major character. During the Friday, Dec. 13 episode, fan-favorite Dex Heller, played by Evan Hofer, met his demise. Dex had been expected to make a full ...