GMHC Hotline Answers Through Changing Times
Early in the HIV/AIDS epidemic, there were few sources people could turn to for information about a frightening and unnamed disease that was affecting lovers, friends, family members, and colleagues. GMHC filled that void by starting the nation’s first HIV/AIDS Hotline. In 1982, an answering machine in the home of GMHC volunteer Rodger McFarlane received […]
Welcome to GHMC At A Glance — April 2021 Edition
Dear GMHC community, June 5 marks the 40th year of the HIV epidemic in the United States. On this date in 1981, the CDC issued a report about a rare pneumonia in five young gay men in Los Angeles that would later be connected to HIV. GMHC (originally founded as Gay Men’s Health Crisis) would launch one […]
