People First What does financial guru Suze Orman say about priorities when it comes to building personal wealth? People first. People first is also what the organizations featured in A&U’s ninth annual Holiday Gift Guide deem as the number-one priority when it comes to securing community health. Whether it’s Broadway Cares’ support of food service and meal delivery programs in 110 organizations across thirty-four states or Hope House’s weekly play-therapy program for children in the Memphis area, putting people first is only possible with steady [...]

Despair and Hope in the Other D.C. by Larry Buhl Most would agree that the fight against AIDS has made tremendous progress in nearly thirty years. But they would be surprised that in some parts of the United States, as far as AIDS goes, it’s still 1985. Not far from the National Mall, the White House, and the Capitol Building sits another Washington, D.C., so close to tourist attractions and the halls of government that it seems like a parallel universe. The feature-length documentary The [...]

Children Living with HIV/AIDS Find Family, Friends & Fun at Camp by Aimee Swartz, with Ken Gladstone Four years ago, Veronica, a seemingly healthy thirteen year-old, began to go blind. Her doctors uncovered that her loss of sight stemmed from cytomegalovirus, an AIDS-related infection, and that Veronica was born HIV-positive; her birth parents, she also found out, had died of AIDS. Soon after, Veronica’s family, ashamed of the disease, kicked her out of her home. Later, at the urging of her doctor, Veronica found Camp [...]

Greg Roderick takes us behind the scenes of Broadway Bares by Chael Needle Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Nobody likes the “Go To Jail” card when playing Monopoly. But Strip-opoly? That’s a board game of a different stripe. Actor and singer Greg Roderick traded in his South Pacific Navy togs for prison garb when he joined a cadre of male dancers and performers for Broadway Bares XX: Strip-opoly’s “Go to Jail” number. The uniforms did not stay on for long, though. To [...]

Ann-Margret delivers her best performance in her role as quiet advocate for the AIDS community by Dann Dulin A star was born…when Ann-Margret coolly sashayed before the camera in her debut film, the 1962 Rogers & Hammerstein musical State Fair. Glimmering in sunny yellow short-shorts and a breezy white and yellow polka-dot blouse, her golden red hair flowed and bounced, framing her angelic face and radiant, sexy smile. An AIDS activist was born…when Ann-Margret delivered a rousing and moving speech on Hollywood’s Paramount Studios lot in 1985 [...]

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