Racism, Trauma, and Healing: How GMHC Serves Black Communities
For Black History Month, we asked GMHC’s community relations director, Krishna Stone, how the agency serves Black communities, which experience a disproportionate and debilitating impact from the HIV/AIDS and, now, COVID-19 pandemics. Photo: Bill Wadman Addressing racism and other inequities that create barriers to care “is in the air we breathe,” she said. “HIV and […]
An Unwitting Pilgrim: David Pais
David Pais’ life so far has been an unwitting pilgrimage. “Everything that’s happened to me in my life has not been planned. I’m being led,” he said. Pais, a devout Catholic, is also gay and a long-term HIV survivor. He started volunteering for GMHC as soon as the agency opened forty years ago, wanting to […]
Why Does FDA Ban ‘Gay’ Blood?
The American Red Cross issued an urgent appeal for blood donations in January, warning that the U.S. blood supply is dangerously low because of a sharp drop in donations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even so, gay and bisexual men, clinically referred to as “men who have sex with men” or MSM, are still being told […]
