AIDS Education Month
Posted on May 16, 2014 by A&U in Features
FIGHT for a World Without AIDS Philadelphia FIGHT believes education equals empowerment by Alina Oswald Photos by Holly Clark Truth is that catch-phrases like “AIDS free generation” or “getting to zero” capture a promising vision of a world free of AIDS, by instilling the hope and dedication needed to eradicate this disease, but, at the [...]
Mark Ruffalo
Posted on May 9, 2014 by A&U in Cover Story
Indelible Mark Discussing His New Film, The Normal Heart, Which Captures the Onset of the AIDS Crisis, Mark Ruffalo Reflects Back on the Shock of Those Days & How Apathy Left a Shameful Dent in American History by Dann Dulin It beats. The Normal [...]
Matters of the Heart
Posted on May 7, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Frontdesk
Frontdesk by David Waggoner Maybe I’m getting sappy in my middle age years, but I’m actually excited that May 25 will be the debut of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart on HBO. After this year’s big Oscar win for Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto’s performances in Dallas Buyers Club, who in HIV-positive America wouldn’t be [...]
Dropping the Ball
Posted on April 22, 2014 by A&U in Columns, First Generation
Dropping the Ball Is it time to forge new connections & strengthen our AIDS communities? by Chuck Willman I’m angry. So as I write this, I cannot promise it will be a joy to read or digest. For that, I will apologize now. But I hope you’ll indulge me for a few minutes anyway. I’m [...]
Body Counts
Posted on March 11, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Body Counts A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strub Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Larry Buhl Even those intimately familiar with the darkest days of the AIDS crisis might not know Sean Strub. Diagnosed with HIV in 1985, Strub protested with ACT UP at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and and was part [...]
What’s Your Brand of AIDS Activism?
Posted on January 2, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Frontdesk
Frontdesk by David Waggoner January is usually the coldest month for New Yorkers. But I’m not worried about the weather coming in the first month of the new year for each issue emanates warmth and vitality. A fire kindled over twenty-three years ago, A&U is both a labor of love and a personal history of [...]
Sarah Schulman
Posted on November 22, 2013 by A&U in Features
Witness to a Lost Imagination With The Gentrification of the Mind, Writer & Activist Sarah Schulman Delves into the Politics of AIDS Awareness by Chip Alfred Sarah Schulman is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker who lived through the AIDS crisis. But Schulman didn’t just live through it, she did something about it. No, she actually did [...]
Sean Sasser Endowment Fund
Posted on September 13, 2013 by A&U in Noteworthy
The new season of MTV’s The Real World is returning to San Francisco, the city that was the setting for the third season of the seven-strangers-live-in-a-house reality series airing back in 1994. That’s when the viewing public met Miamian Pedro Zamora, who was openly positive on the show, as well as Pedro’s boyfriend, Sean Sasser, [...]
ACT UP! the movie
Posted on May 16, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy
A new film about ACT UP! is in the works! Producers/directors Scott Robbe and Jerry Kolbe have been feverishly working for the past three years to bring a story about the world’s first AIDS activists to the screen. As a grass-roots and radically democratic movement, ACT UP! was instrumental in challenging power structures invested in [...]
