Fenway Announces Studds Award Honorees: The Hat Sisters
Fenway has announced its 2017 Congressman Gerry E. Studds Award Honorees: Tim O’Connor and John Michael Gray – known throughout the community as the The…
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HIV Infections Decline, But Country Fails to Meet Goals of National HIV/AIDS Strategy
By: Eric Brus* New U.S. HIV Infections Decline, But Progress Falls Short of NHAS Goals During the period from 2010 to 2015, the annual number…
Douglas M. Brooks Ends Tenure As White House Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
Fenway Health, The Fenway Institute, and the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts commend outgoing White House Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy Douglas…
CDC: Half of Black Gay Men Will Become HIV Positive
By: Eric Brus*— CDC Projects that Half of U.S. Black Gay Men Will Be Diagnosed with HIV During Their Lifetime If current HIV diagnoses rates…
Getting to Zero Coalition Determines Strategy to Reduce HIV Diagnoses
By: Luke Sherman/TRT Contributor— Advocacy organizations, public health officials, and concerned community members came together for the first time in late February to discuss the…
NCLR, HRC, and CHLP Launch Campaign to Raise Awareness of HIV Criminalization Laws
WASHINGTON—Today, the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), and the Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) launched a new…
The National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020
Today, President Obama signed an Executive Order releasing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020, detailing principles and priorities to guide our collective national work to address…
What We’re Looking for Over the Next Five Years of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy
By: Sean Cahill* One of my proudest moments in 25 years of LGBT and HIV/AIDS activism came in July, 2010, when I joined other HIV/AIDS…
CDC Awards Fenway Health, AIDS Action, Multicultural AIDS Coalition $3.78m for ‘Getting To Zero’ HIV Prevention Partnership
BOSTON, Mass.—The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have awarded Fenway Health, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, and the Multicultural AIDS Coalition $3.78 million for a five-year…
CDC to Fund New Programs to Prevent HIV Infection Among Transgender People and Bay/Bi Men
By: Eric Brus*— The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently announced $185 million in funding for three new programs to prevent HIV infection among…
Study: Higher Rates of HIV Among Black Gay Men Expected to Continue for Decades
By: Eric Brus*— Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) currently account for about two-thirds of all new HIV infections in…
Disproportionate Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ community
By: Christine Nicco/TRT Reporter— Recently, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) released its report Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ),…
Gay Men Say that HIV is a Top Health Issue, but Few Get Tested Regularly
By: Eric Brus*— More than half (52%) of U.S. men who identify as gay or bisexual consider HIV/AIDS to be the most important health issue…
Bisexual Men Fight For Visibility
According to the Williams Institute, bisexual people make up about 40% of those who are attracted to people of the same gender. Despite this statistic,…
Gay & Bisexual Men See HIV as Top Health Issue Facing their Community; Majorities not Personally Worried about Getting Infected, Tested Regularly
Most Are Unaware of New Prevention Options, Such as PrEP, or Current Treatment Recommendations MENLO PARK, Cal.—More than thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and…
New CDC Campaign Encourages All Living with HIV to Start & Stay on Treatment
HIV Treatment Works highlights benefits for those with HIV and their partners HIV Treatment Works, a communication campaign focused exclusively on encouraging treatment and care…
Tyler Glenn, Neon Trees Frontman on Reconciling Gay Mormonism
By: Chris Azzopardi*/Special to TRT— Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn is still figuring out what it means to be a gay Mormon. Not just how…
#CONNECTEDBoston: An Op-Ed to Black and Brown Gay, Bisexual and Queer men
By: Amir Dixon/Special to TRT— When I moved to Boston from South Florida for school almost five years ago, I was adamant that I wanted…
Men’s Event Raises $650k-plus for Fenway Health
Mayor Walsh announces two gay appointments. [View the rest of the Fenway Men’s Event here.] By: Chuck Colbert/TRT Reporter— Once again, the creative black-tie gala…
New Year’s Resolution: Wiping out HIV
By: Rebecca Haag*— “It’s possible for us to end the AIDS epidemic in Massachusetts.” I spoke those words in a news story last June, and…
AIDS: Signs of Progress, But Worries About Cuts
By: Lisa Keen/Keen News Service— More than 9,000 people with HIV were on a waiting list for federal assistance in buying their medications in…
GLAD Joins Other Orgs. in Marking National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
BOSTON, Mass.—On September 27 in support of National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) has joined hundreds of organizations and individuals in…
LGBT Equality Decreases HIV Proliferation, But Is It Enough to Eradicate It?
Next week (9/27) is National Gay Men’s HIV Awareness Day Today, as was the case 30 years ago, gay and bisexual men are among those most…