AIDS

ACT UP demonstrators chanting at AIDS rally, New York City. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Scott Beasley, an assistant editor at Sky News, writes for PinkNews about the toll the AIDS epidemic took…

Did you know that 32.7 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses since the start of the epidemic? That’s more fatalities than World War One. Did you also know that 690,000 people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2019? As…

On July 3, 1981, a now-famous New York Times article carried the headline, “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals.” The article described the sudden appearance, in gay men from New York and Los Angeles, of a rare skin…