Arts & Entertainment AIDS Memorial Quilt On Exhibit At SFO Through January 2026 Six sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt will be on display at SFO for the next year, along with objects and photographs from the National AIDS Memorial.
SF News SF’s Largest-Ever AIDS Quilt Display Coming to Golden Gate Park in June We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex, because the largest AIDS Quilt display since the 2012 Washington, D.C. National Mall display — and the largest ever here in San Francisco — is set for June 11 and 12 in Golden Gate Park.
SF News Moderna is Set to Begin Clinical Trials for an HIV Vaccine The elusive HIV vaccine could be on the way, as Moderna is set to begin jabbing 56 adults in the first ever mRNA HIV vaccine clinical trial in humans.
SF News AIDS Quilt Leftovers Being Hand-Sewn Into COVID-19 Masks By ‘The Mother of the Quilt’ “Chief Quilt Coordinator” Gert McMullin is sewing 80 masks per day out of unused AIDS Quilt fabric that dates back to the 1980s.
SF News SF’s Largest-Ever AIDS Quilt Display Coming for Golden Gate Park Anniversary We’re gonna need a bigger box of Kleenex, as the biggest AIDS Memorial Quilt display San Francisco has ever seen will be part of Golden Gate Park’s 150th anniversary proceedings.
SF News PrEP-Maker Gilead Sued by Feds for Patent Infringement Foster City-based Gilead Sciences is accused is ripping off government patents to develop its blockbuster, billion-dollar HIV treatment PrEP.
Arts & Entertainment Local Queer Filmmaker Leo Herrera Imagines A World In Which AIDS Never Killed Our 'Fathers' San Francisco-based filmmaker Leo Herrera has been at work over the last year on a film that explores a vision of a contemporary world in which AIDS never happened, a 59-year-old Keith Haring
SF News Scott Wiener Introduces State Bill To Reduce Felony For HIV-Positive People Not Telling Partners Their Status A law that makes it a felony to knowingly expose another person to HIV by having unprotected sex with them without disclosing one's positive HIV status is being targeted by State Senator and
SF News In Long Road To HIV Vaccine, Local Clincal Trials Begin With New Approach A new approach in the enduring search for a vaccine to eradicate HIV is the focus of clinical trials beginning in San Francisco among other cities and serves as the subject for an
SF News Condoms In Porn Proposal Goes Down On State Board Vote You don’t often see 100 porn stars at a state safety board meeting, but that’s just what happened yesterday at the Harris State Building Auditorium in Oakland. A huge turnout of
SF News Measure Mandating Condoms In Porn Approved For November Ballot A measure that would mandate all pornographic film performers in California wear condoms during shoots will be on the 2016 ballot next November. The Secretary of State yesterday announced that the measure had
SF News Supervisor Pushing For Free/Cheap HIV-Prevention Drug Truvada The HIV-prevention drug Truvada, a.k.a. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has been a topic of approximately 9 trillion conversations in gay bars over the last year, in large part due to the growing
SF News Great Nephew of Labor Leader Cesar Chavez Possibly Intentionally Infecting Other Men With HIV A not-so-sweet story is coming to light this week about 29-year-old Thomas Guerra, who has also gone by the name Ashton Chavez, and whom San Diego prosecutors are now building a case against
SF News S.F. Gays Use Sharp Jewelry To Spread AIDS, Claims Pat Robertson Sick television evangelist Pat Robertson took to the air on Tuesday on the 700 Club to make wild, untrue claims about gay man in San Francisco and their use of jewelry. Specifically, he
SF News Sean Sasser, AIDS Activist Who Appeared On 'Real World SF,' Dies Some sad news today. Sean Sasser, the man who appeared on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco as Pedro Zamora's boyfriend, died this month. He was only 44. San Francisco-based comicbook artist Judd
SF News HIV Vaccine Trial Halted After Too Many Subjects Contract HIV [Updated] Yet another clinical trial for a vaccine to prevent HIV has failed, and for 48 men and transgendered individuals it meant that they contracted the virus while participating in the study. The study,
SF News Homeless Man With AIDS Dies Of Pneumonia On Castro Doorsteps Pedro Villamore Jr., a 44-year-old homeless man, died of pneumonia complicating AIDS, according to report made available by the San Francisco Medical Examiner's office. Villamore's was found dead on Castro Street in December
SF News Brilliance In Advertising: 'Welcome To SF! Please F*ck Safely' [NSFW] Stop AIDS, San Francisco's live-saving nonprofit that helps prevent HIV transmission among all gay, bisexual, and transgender men in San Francisco, unfurled this blunt sign in the Castro over the weekend. You like?
Arts & Entertainment The Photograph That Changed the Face of AIDS December 1st marks the 25th annual World AIDS Day, and LIFE.com revisits a turning point in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Shot in November 1990 by journalism student Therese Frare,
Arts & Entertainment MTV's <em>Real World</em> Premiered Twenty Years Ago Today, SF Installment Stands As Best Season Gothamist reports today that MTV's The Real World — where young people stopped being polite, and started getting real — aired today for the very first time. Created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Dining Out For Life At Bisou Bistro On a very tardy edition of Eat Here Tonight, we suggest that you head over to the Castro for Dining Out For Life at Bisou Bistro. Hosted by Bill Hemenger and Rebecca Prozan,
SF News Obama Names S.F. HIV Expert As Head Of National AIDS Policy Another local official got a presidential nod this week: Dr. Grant Colfax, Director of HIV Prevention and Research for San Francisco's Department of Public Health, has been appointed by President Obama to head
Arts & Entertainment Behold The First ACT UP Flyer That Started A Revolution ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) did more than just unleash a cutoff jeans, t-shirt, and black leather jacket with boots fad. It started a revolution. In March, the organization turns 25.
SF News Commemorative Bricks From Golden Gate Bridge's 50th Anniversary Ripped Up A brick walkway behind the Golden Gate Bridge visitors' center, laid in 1987 to mark the bridge's 50th anniversary and paid for by donors some of whom had the names of dead loved
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Mr. Belvedere' AIDS Joke We have a mid-80s sitcom zinger for you here about having AIDS, delivered by a child (the delivery could have used a little more rehearsal, we think). This was probably a real uncomfortable
