Chinese AIDS Activist Gao Yaojie Dies at 95Pioneering AIDS Activist Rev. Stephen Pieters DiesUrvashi Vaid, Pioneering AIDS Activist, Dies at 63Awareness Day Launched to Decriminalize HIVDallas Activist & Longtime PWA Bruce Monroe DiesScott Robbe — Founder of Out in Film — DiesAIDS Activist Shawn Lang, of AIDS Connecticut, Dies at 65ACT UP Philly: HIV Care is Failing to Reach People of ColorJoseph Sonnabend, Pioneering AIDS Doctor, Dies at 88Rabbi Allen Freehling, AIDS Activist, Dies at 88San Francisco Activist Harry Britt Dies at 82Activist-Playwright Larry Kramer Dies at 82Garry Bowie of Being Alive Dies of COVID-19 DiseaseChinese AIDS Activist Shuping Wang DiesLongtime AIDS Survivor Jim Chud Dies at 62AIDS Pioneer Dr. Mathilde Krim Dies at Age 91Performance Artist & HIV Educator Antron-Reshaud Olukayode DiesHarvard Honors Elton John as Humanitarian of the YearMuslim American Faith Organizations Take Stand Against StigmaGilbert Baker — Creator of Pride Flag — DiesAPLA Founder Matt Redman DiesActress Alexis Arquette DiesAIDS Activist Wins Suit Against NYC RealtorCandidate Hillary Clinton Chided for Crediting Nancy Reagan for AIDS WorkGlendale Activist Marilyn Gunnell Dies at 73AIDS Activist Gregg Gonsalves Co-Founds Yale Program‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Steve Moore DiesNational Latino/Hispanic HIV/AIDS Action Agenda PublishedNYC Activist Spencer Cox DiesAIDS Activists Protest in Nude in U.S. House Speaker Boehner’s OfficeJohn Grant Discloses HIV+ Status at UK’s Meltdown FestivalAIDS Memorial Quilt Displayed in its EntiretyJosh Robbins Invites World to Witness His HIV Test ResultsHHS Commemorates 30 Years of Leadership in Fighting HIV/AIDSAIDS Activist Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Age 79Actress & Early AIDS Prevention Advocate Zelda Rubinstein Dies at 76Activist Brian Bond Discloses HIV+ Status on White House Blog‘Freddie For A Day’ Event Starts in EnglandMartin Delaney, Crusader of HIV Treatment, Dies at 63Uganda Hosts HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting; Activists ArrestedDr. R Scott Hitt, AIDS Specialist on Presidential Advisory Council, DiesAIDS Activist Jean O’Leary Dies at 57Activist & Clinton Advisor Bob Hattoy DiesRic Weiland, Microsoft Employee #2, DiesBono & Bobby Shriver Found (RED) InitiativePOZ Life Weekend Seminars Begin in LA Area1st National Asian/Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness DaySon of South African Leader Nelson Mandela DiesFirst Legal Same-Sex Marriage Performed in U.S.South Africa Advances Treatment Options after Long FightClinton Foundation Secures Generic Drug Price Reductions1st National Latino AIDS Awareness DayLGBTQ Rights Pioneer Morris Kight Dies at 82Fashion & Celebrity Photographer Herb Ritts DiesPaul Starke, West Hollywood Leader, DiesActivist Campaign Forces Chinese Officials to Stop AIDS Denial‘Barbara Lee Day’ Celebrated in San FranciscoStephen Gendin — Iconic AIDS Activist — DiesAIDS Activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya DiesRandy Krivonic, San Francisco Dancer, DiesDick Pabich, AIDS Activist & Harvey Milk Campaign Manager, DiesSingaporean Activist Paddy Chew DiesBlack AIDS Institute FoundedBay Area AIDS Activist Reggie Williams DiesNational Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Raises VisibilityVictory Fund Co-Founder John Thomas DiesGugu Dlamini Killed by Neighbors in South AfricaSimon Tseko Nkoli, South African Activist, DiesHIV+ Presidential Advisor Speaks at White HouseThomas Steel, Bay Area Civil Rights Lawyer, DiesAfrobeat Star & Activist Fela Kuti DiesRed Dress Party Held at Gold Coast in WeHoMark Harrington of TAG & ACT UP Receives ‘Genius Grant’Los Angeles Activist Duke Comegys DiesAIDS Quilt Covers National Mall in Washington, D.C.LA AIDS Activist & APAIT Leader James Sakakura DiesDance Festival Launched on Fire Island to Raise MoneyConnie Norman, AIDS Activist and Trans Icon, DiesDominican Actress-Activist Ilka Tanya Payán DiesPoet & AIDS Activist Essex Hemphill DiesSan Diegan AIDS Activist James Thompson DiesKenneth Craig Innes, Broadway & TV Dancer, DiesAuthor & Activist Steven Corbin DiesTV-Film-Stage Actor Richard Frank DiesWeHo Deputy Bruce Boland DiesRob Eichberg — Co-Creator of ‘Coming Out Day’ — DiesThomas Crail, Head of WeHo Chamber, DiesChinese AIDS Activist & Disc Jockey JJ Chan DiesNational HIV Testing Day is LaunchedCapital City AIDS Fund is Created to Serve SacramentoSouth African gospel singer Musa Njoko Discloses HIV-Positive StatusOlympian Diver Greg Louganis Shares HIV+ StatusSan Francisco Political Organizer Scott Smith DiesBay Area AIDS Fundraiser Joseph Hollinger DiesHIV+ Woman in AZT Study Gives Birth to HIV- BabyActivist & Reality TV Star Pedro Zamora DiesDave Johnson, First AIDS Coordinator for Los Angeles, DiesNYC Poet-Performer Assotto Saint DiesWashington DC AIDS Activist Stephen Smith DiesDerek Jarman — British Film Director & Activist — DiesAuthor-Journalist Randy Shilts DiesAIDS Activist & Scientist Bruce Voeller DiesChicago HIV Physician Ron Sable DiesPioneer of AIDS Activism Michael Callen DiesMemorial Plaques Begin Lining Sidewalks of West Hollywood17-year-old Hemophiliac Joins Lawsuit Against Japanese GovtJim Owles, Founder of Gay Activists Alliance, DiesPatrick Lippert of ‘Rock the Vote’ DiesLA Shanti Founder Daniel P. Warner DiesLA Activist & Commissioner Rand Schrader DiesWest Hollywood Activist Chris Fairchild DiesAIDSWatch: Advocates Organize to Lobby for Congressional ActionWest Hollywood Pharmacy Owner Loyd Tittle DiesActivists Protest Drug-maker Amgen at Thousands Oaks HQRock Legend Elton John Starts AIDS FoundationSOMA Event Producer Jerry Vallaire DiesHaitians Detained in GTMO Refugee Camp Go on Hunger StrikeACT UP/LA Member Richard Iosty Dies11-year-old Glendale Boy DiesNew York AIDS Activist Katrina Haslip DiesHomophobic Texas Judge Loses ElectionAIDS Quilt Grows to 24,000 PanelsRon Woodroof, Founder of Dallas Buyers Club, DiesHIV+ Activist Mary Fisher Speaks at RNCActivist & Fundraiser Randall Klose DiesRobert Nemchik, Los Angeles Activist, DiesActivist Elizabeth Glaser Addresses 1992 Democratic National ConventionRonnie Mutimusekwa, First AIDS activist in Zimbabwe, DiesCivil Rights Icon Marsha P. Johnson Found Dead in Hudson RiverACT UP LA Launches Clean Needles NowRobert Pruzan — Bay Area Photographer — DiesFreddie Mercury Tribute Concert Raises AIDS FundsAIDS Legal Activist Clint Hockenberry DiesDanny Sotomayor of ACT UP/Chicago DiesKimberly Bergalis — Focus of Testing Debate — DiesSacramento Activist Stan Hadden DiesPaul Martin Heltsley — San Francisco Writer-Editor — DiesThree Men Convicted of Hate-Crime Killing of Julio Rivera in NYCCalifornia AB101 Veto Ignites Protests in LA and SFNavy Vet & Leatherman Robert Douty Dies‘Well, bye-bye y’all’: Activist Belinda Mason DiesActivists Put Giant Condom on House of Homophobic SenatorCandidate for NY City Council Discloses HIV+ StatusMinority Groups Launch HIV Treatment Education ProgramACT UP Contingent Launches Treatment Action GroupRed Ribbon Makes Debut at Tony Awards26,000 Participate in AIDS Walk in New York CityNYC Documentarian-Writer Phil Zwickler DiesWilliam Waybourn & Vic Basile Found Gay & Lesbian Victory FundAPI Service Group Grows from Club Committee to Stand-Alone Org: APAIT‘Night Without Light’ Launches in NYCFirst ‘AIDS Walk Wisconsin’ is Held in MilwaukeeBay Area Comedian Jim Samuels DiesProtestors Disrupt Int’l AIDS Conference in San FranciscoACT UP Protests NIH to Demand More HIV Treatment OptionsACT UP Takes Over Chicago with Multiple Protest ActionsCBS Airs ‘That’s What Friends Are For’ ConcertTeen Activist Ryan White DiesPop Stars Perform in AIDS Benefit Concert at Radio CityArtist Keith Haring DiesVisual AIDS Organizes First ‘Day Without Art’AIDS-Care Activist Chris Brownlie DiesGay Rights Activist and Political Operative Peter Scott DiesRon Rose, WeHo Activist Who Founded Being Alive, DiesFirst HIV-information Center Opens in West HollywoodDr. Richard Hamilton — Bay Area Doctor — DiesMadonna & Sanda Bernhard Join Dancefloor at APLA FundraiserArsonist Destroys AIDS Center in DallasOp-ed by ACT UP Exposes LA County Healthcare FailuresACT UP Protests FDA Protocols for DHPG, Forcing Policy ReversalActivist Michael Callen Defends Accusations with ProofProtesters Hold Weeklong Vigil at LA County Medical CenterLA Center Resurrects HIV Testing ProgramAPLA Adopts Austerity ProgramActivist-Author Joseph Beam DiesChris Brownlie Hospice Opens in Los AngelesSinger-Performer Sylvester DiesGay Rights Leader to Texas Judge: ‘We Will Remember’Gay GOP Activist Duke Armstrong DiesElizabeth Glaser Launches Pediatric AIDS FoundationBallot Measure to Reduce HIV Rights is Defeated in CaliforniaCalifornia Governor’s Endorsement of Prop 102 BackfiresFor Black Activist Robert Arrington, Life Begins with HIV DiagnosisACT UP Shuts Down FDA Headquarters in Rockville, MD“Hooray for Hollywood’ Benefit on Fire Island Supports God’s Love We Deliver‘Father of West Hollywood’ Ron Stone DiesResearchers Voice Opposition to Proposal for Mandatory HIV ReportingNeedle-Exchange Program Begins in TacomaGay Vietnam Veteran Leonard Matlovich DiesGay Activist Group — GUTS — Shames Dallas City CouncilRon Woodroof Founds Dallas Buyers ClubIan McKellen Comes Out on U.K. Radio to Oppose Section 28ACT UP Chapter Forms in San Francisco after Crushing LaRouche InitiativeACT UP Protests Cosmopolitan MagazineLGBTQ Political Leader Shelley Andelson DiesACT UP Chapter Launches in Los AngelesHollywood UMC Member Lyle Loder DiesNational Black Leadership Commission on AIDS is FoundedAdvocate & Educator Frederick Garnett DiesAIDS Memorial Quilt Displayed on National Mall in DCSeattle Holds its First AIDS Walk-a-thonGroup Launches to Help API People Living with HIV/AIDS‘Persons Living With AIDS’ are Named Grand Marshal of Houston PrideGMHC President Paul Popham DiesACT UP Holds Its First ‘Zap’ on Wall StreetActivist Larry Kramer Founds ACT UPCleve Jones Creates First Panel for AIDS Memorial QuiltStarcross Monastery Begins to Adopt AIDS BabiesActivists Defeat California Prop 64, Attempt to Expose PWAsAPLA Founder Nancy Cole Sawaya DiesBlack Community Mobilizes for ActionChicago House Opens Its First Residence for PWAsDionne Warwick ‘and Friends’ Sing for amFARAIDS Hospice Founder & Publisher Charles Lee Morris DiesChicago House Formed to Provide Shelter to PWAsRyan White Refused Entry to School‘From the Pines with Love’ Raises $200k for AIDS Medical FoundationDavid Goodstein, Publisher of The Advocate, DiesEarly AIDS Activist Roger Lyon DiesVulnerable Leather Community Defends SoMa Territory with Street FairEarly AIDS/KS Activist Bobbi Campbell DiesEarly AIDS Activist Tony Ferrara DiesCAL-PEP Founded to Provide HIV/AIDS Services for Bay Area Sex WorkersChicken Soup Brigade Starts Caring for PWAs in SeattleActivist Morris Kight Starts Aid for AIDS in Los AngelesStephen Lamb, Profiled in New York Times, Dies3-year-old Sammy Kushnick Dies in Los AngelesNationwide Vigil Draws Attention to Federal InactionHealth Crisis Network Opens in MiamiDebbie Reynolds & Rip Taylor Perform at AIDS Benefit at Hollywood BowlEmployer Puts AIDS Activist on Medical Leave Without PayMark Feldman of ‘Phooey on AIDS Fund’ DiesStars Align for KS Benefit in San FranciscoGenesis of AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin is LaunchedFirst Legal Services Provider for PWAs LaunchedDenver Principles Adopted after AIDS Forum Take-over‘How to Have Sex in an Epidemic’ Hits the Streets of NYC3,000 Marchers in LA Demand AIDS ResearchKen Ramsauer – First Person with AIDS on TV – Memorialized in Central ParkDaniel P. Warner Launches LA Shanti, Promotes Death with Dignity5,000 Attend Candlelight March at Federal Building in Los AngelesCandlelight Vigils Held in San Francisco & NYCCircus Event Collects $250,000 for AIDS OrganizationFrontiers Magazine Re-prints ‘1,112 and Counting’ on CoverLarry Kramer Publishes ‘1,112 and Counting’MECLA Briefing on AIDS Delivers Troubling NewsNorthwest AIDS Foundation Founded in SeattleAPLA Elects Founding Board of DirectorsActivists Launch Hotline at Center in Los AngelesPlay Fair! First to Advocate for Safe Sex PracticesGenesis for San Francisco AIDS Foundation is LaunchedLA Activist Ivy Bottini Creates Informational NetworkGMHC Holds First Major AIDS Fundraiser, Others FollowGay Men’s Health Crisis Opens in NYCBobbi Campbell Starts Publishing ‘Gay Cancer Journal’Larry Kramer Hosts First Meeting to Discuss Pandemic