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
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, In Golden Gate Park... In honor of World AIDS Day, flowers lay on a plaque bearing names of those lost to the epidemic at the National AIDS Memorial Grove. The Grove, a documentary about the creation of
Arts & Entertainment In Honor of World AIDS Day: AIDS-in-S.F. Doc Shortlisted for Oscar; Who Was the Real Patient Zero? It's World AIDS Day everyone! Therefore you should be putting on a condom right now and/or trying to combat HIV in the streets or the laboratory! In lieu of that, you may
SF News Occupy Oakland Erects Teepee Honoring Sioux Indians & AIDS Activists Zachary Runningwolf, the Occupy Oakland tree camper, burns sage after erecting a teepee on the North side of the plaza to honor Sioux Indians, homeless workers and AIDS activists. When Runningwolf and Oakland
SF News Rapper Says Something Homophobic, Wonders What's Wrong With It Hip Hop video blog VladTV has posted a video [embedded below] in which rapper The Game is asked about his feelings on gays in the entertainment business. "Game don't have a problem with
SF News National HIV Testing Day Is Today Before it turned into lazy comedians' anti-gay punchline at bad comedy clubs across the country, HIV/AIDS continues to kill scores of people all over the world. But it doesn't have to be
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: 'Life Before the Lifeboat' Featuring Dr. Paul Volberding After heading out to play in the Civic Center during the Gay Pride festivities and Gay Inc.-related parties and whatnot, be sure to check out Life Before the Lifeboat on KQED. Airing
SF News Twin Peaks to Sport Giant AIDS Ribbon On Sunday, May 22, San Francisco will mark the 30th anniversary of when the first AIDS case was reported in the city. To reflect on the occasion, Twin Peaks will don a giant
SF News HIV Infections in Retreat, Claim SF Health Researchers The BAR (where one can now - at last! - comment on articles) says that HIV infections in San Francisco are now in "retreat." Over the last decade, the rate of new HIV
SF News Two HIV Treatments By Local Companies, One a 'Functional Cure,' Get Press and Market Attention Today we find news about two local companies with HIV drugs that are receiving some fresh attention. Richmond-based Sangamo BioSciences Inc. has developed a cell therapy that is being billed as a "functional
SF News Tim Lincecum's HIV/AIDS PSA Questioned Lightning-quick blogger Allan Hough of Mission Mission spotted this odd bit of AIDS cure awareness, or lack thereof. Namely, the new Tim Lincecum HIV/AIDS awareness PSAs on BART trains. The copy reads,
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Protest Screenings of David Wojnarowicz's Censored 'A Fire in My Belly' Some last-minute screenings of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly have been scheduled on Friday night as part of a national protest of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's removal of the
SF News Photos: World AIDS Day 2010 Around The Globe Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day, a time set aside to collectively "take action to tackle HIV prejudice and to protect yourself and others from HIV transmission." In San Francisco, a city
SF News Why Is a California State Agency Illegally Revealing Info About HIV+ Patients? The ACLU, Lambda Legal, and HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance (HALSA) are "demanding a full explanation for the unauthorized and illegal disclosures of confidential identifying information of approximately 5,000 HIV-positive Medi-Cal
SF News New Leaf Closing for Good In October After 35 years of providing mental health, substance abuse, and senior services to the LGBT community, HIV/AIDS patients and beyond, New Leaf announced it will close its doors by the middle of
SF News UPDATED: Annual AIDS Walk Raises $3M Sunday's 6.2-mile SF AIDS Walk pulled in more than $3 million. An estimated 25,000 participants showed up to help raise much-needed funds for HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and care. This comes
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Pieces of the AIDS Memorial Quilt While AIDS humor will never fail to tickle the funny bones of lazy comedians and the BPR-swilling set, people are still dying from it. Yes, still. Right in your neighborhood too. The AIDS
SF News Photos: City Hall And Coit Tower Turned Red In honor of World Aids Day yesterday, both SF City Hall and Coit Tower were illuminated in red. (Red being the signifying color of AIDS awareness.) Also, are you looking to get tested
SF News City Landmarks Turn Red for World AIDS Day Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. In honor of the day, Coit Tower and City Hall will be turning red come nightfall. So, be sure to check them out on your way
SF News New HIV Vaccine Study Shows "Modest" Benefits Conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health, a new vaccine study has shown "modest" benefits in preventing HIV. Said results show that we could have a "safe and effective" preventive vaccine at
SF News SF AIDS Cuts Postponed The fine folks over at the Bay Area Reporter have word that local health officials will postpone "cutting AIDS contracts until mid-October in order to give the Board of Supervisors time to respond
SF News Bone Marrow Transplant Cures AIDS? While we'll wait to ask you all to throwout your condoms, we did just come across this interesting story about an American man who, it seems, "appears to have been cured of [the
SF News Photos: AIDS Walk Nets Crazy Millions (By Joe Kukura) It was good times yesterday at the AIDS Walk San Francisco (expect for the parts where we were freezing our asses off, or sobbing at the AIDS Quilt). The annual
SF News The Jesse Helms HIV/AIDS Bill? We don't think there are many people who would consider politicians as containing much in the way of a sense of humor or any sense of irony, but in an awesome move of
