White House AIDS Director Harold Phillips Headlines Sept. 14 Webinar on HIV and Aging
As people with HIV live longer, those 50 and older already make up over half of people living with HIV/AIDS nationally—and that’s expected to reach 70% by 2030. Despite vastly improved life expectancy, this group faces higher risks—and often an earlier onset of diseases associated with aging than the general population, including cardiovascular and kidney […]
No Time for Complacency: GMHC Donor Frank Godchaux on Giving What You Can, Where You Are
Finding out that he was HIV positive in 1986 transformed Frank K. Godchaux into both an activist and philanthropist for the LGBTQ+ community. “That was the start of everything. I was given 18 to 36 months to live–at 25 years old,” he said. “It was a crash course in what was going on. The church […]
GMHC’s Marquise Vilsón on ‘No Ordinary Man’—and the Risks and Joys of Trans Visibility
Filming the acclaimed documentary “No Ordinary Man” about trans jazzman Billy Tipton was a “moving and life-changing” milestone in Marquise Vilsón’s own journey as a transmasculine person and performer, the GMHC board member said. “It allowed me to see the possible role models for what we can create as trans people.” Since archival materials for Tipton […]
