Sherri Lewis
Turn Up the Radio
AIDS interrupted by dreams—but I’ve learned to reclaim them
by Sherri Lewis
The best time in my life was being a signed recording…
My HIV Turned 21
It’s Our Party and We’ll Cry If We Want To was the theme for my day of diagnosis.
When I was first diagnosed February 20,…
Choose Light
I have had the great fortune, for the last two years, of living next to one of the most beautiful parks in San Francisco….
Set Asides
Set asides: units of affordable housing required developers to set aside twenty-five percent of all new housing for low to moderate income families. When…
Homeless in San Francisco
Throughout the thirty-one years that I have dealt with HIV/AIDS I have faced many serious challenges, but none so daunting as the one I…
Second Acts: Bruce Ward
Hanging On
Clinging to a raft in the regatta of life
by Bruce Ward
Lazarus Syndrome” is one of the terms coined by psychologists and sociologists to…
A Fight for Community Connections
One week after graduating high school, I escaped my small Ohio town for college. Upon coming out, my family rejected me, which fired up…
Survivor Responsibility
As a gay man who has lived with HIV for thirty-five years, I have not felt survivor guilt. I have, however, felt survivor responsibility.
I…
Heart-to-Heart: Long-Term HIV & Cardiovascular Health
And the Beat Goes On
A heart-to-heart about HIV, cardiovascular health & self-advocacy
by Rob Quinn
The best practice of HIV prevention and care involves more than…
Why I Write
On Friday, March 6, 2016, in response to First Lady Nancy Reagan’s death, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recalled “how difficult it was to talk…
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You Care About HIV Criminalization (You Just Don’t Know It Yet)
On Sunday, June 24, 2018, Visual AIDS participated in the NYC Pride March, distributing over 7,500 copies of a newly commissioned broadsheet project designed…
