Scott Robbe — Founder of Out in Film — DiesActivist-Playwright Larry Kramer Dies at 82Garry Bowie of Being Alive Dies of COVID-19 Disease‘La Cage aux Folles’ Jerry Herman Dies at 88Life Expectancy Increases for Persons Living with HIVChinese AIDS Activist Shuping Wang DiesLongtime AIDS Survivor Jim Chud Dies at 6230th Anniversary of World AIDS DayPerformance Artist & HIV Educator Antron-Reshaud Olukayode DiesBroadway Composer-Lyricist Michael Friedman DiesAmerica’s Black MSM Show Higher HIV Prevalence of Any NationCDC Reports Significant Decline in Death Rates in African AmericansAPLA Founder Matt Redman DiesActress Alexis Arquette DiesOnly 20% of Sexually Active High School Students Test for HIVHIV Diagnoses Drop 19% from 2005 to 2014UNAIDS: Nearly 16 Million Accessing Retroviral TreatmentOnly 30% of HIV-Positive People Have ‘Virus Under Control’Southern States Become New U.S. Epicenter of HIV‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’ Steve Moore DiesUNAIDS: Steep Drop in HIV in Low-to-Middle Income CountriesSean Sasser, Former Partner of MTV’s Pedro Zamora, DiesUNAIDS Estimates Over 35M People Living With HIV2.3 Million Newly Infected, 1.6 Million Die of AIDS in 2012NYC Activist Spencer Cox DiesRobert Frascino — Doctor and HIV/AIDS Activist — DiesVogue Inventor Paris Dupree DiesRecord Numbers Worldwide Receiving Antiretroviral TherapyUNAIDS Reports Significant Decline in HIV InfectionsWashington DC Reports HIV Rate Higher than West AfricaAIDS Denialist Christine Maggiore DiesOver 565,000 U.S. Deaths From AIDSSocial Justice Leader Ferd Eggan DiesActivist & Clinton Advisor Bob Hattoy DiesNYC Dancer & Choreographer Willi Ninja Dies25th Anniversary of Initial AIDS Cases700,000 in Developing Countries Receive Antiretroviral TherapiesSon of South African Leader Nelson Mandela DiesGhana’s Kiki Djan — Keyboardist for Osibisa — DiesDancer-Actor Gene Anthony Ray of ‘Fame’ DiesFashion & Celebrity Photographer Herb Ritts DiesDozens of Countries Suffer from HIV/AIDS SpreadHIV/AIDS Tops Causes of Death in Sub-Saharan AfricaRobbin Crosby — Guitarist of Glam-Rock Band Ratt — DiesLance Loud of PBS’s ‘American Family’ DiesStephen Gendin — Iconic AIDS Activist — DiesAIDS Activist Kiyoshi Kuromiya DiesRandy Krivonic, San Francisco Dancer, DiesIsraeli Star Ofra Haza DiesAIDS Becomes Number One Killer in AfricaSingaporean Activist Paddy Chew DiesGugu Dlamini Killed by Neighbors in South AfricaBay Area Civil Rights Lawyer Thomas Steel DiesNearly Half of U.S. AIDS Deaths are in Black PopulationActor-Screenwriter Murray Salem DiesWorldwide Total of AIDS Cases Grow to 30 MillionDouglas Hevenor, Award-Winning Dancer, DiesPrincipal Dancer Christopher Boatwright Dies‘Heat of the Night’ Actor Howard Rollins DiesLuis Antonio Gonzalez, of SF Dance Center, DiesMore than 500,000 AIDS Cases Reported to CDCSan Diegan AIDS Activist James Thompson DiesKenneth Craig Innes, Broadway & TV Dancer, DiesTV-Film-Stage Actor Richard Frank DiesWeHo Deputy Bruce Boland DiesChinese AIDS Activist & Disc Jockey JJ Chan DiesNative American Opera Singer White Eagle DiesSteve Silver — Creator of ‘Beach Blanket Babylon’ — DiesMajor League Player Glenn Burke DiesBroadway Dancer-Actor Tony Azito DiesWriter-Activist Paul Monette DiesSan Francisco Political Organizer Scott Smith DiesBay Area AIDS Fundraiser Joseph Hollinger DiesC+C Music Factory’s David Cole DiesDisney Exec Gary Kalkin DiesKeith McDaniel, Alvin Ailey Soloist, DiesAIDS Becomes Leading Killer of Americans Aged 25-44Pediatric AIDS Activist Elizabeth Glaser DiesBilly Wilson of ‘Bubbling Brown Sugar’ DiesJoel Harrison, Founder of Hudson Rep Dance Theater, Dies‘Radical Faerie’ Barry Cundiff DiesNYC Poet-Performer Assotto Saint DiesProducer-Songwriter Dan Hartman DiesChicago HIV Physician Ron Sable DiesGay Journalist John Rowberry DiesBadlands singer Ray Gillen diesFilm Director Emile Ardolino DiesSan Francisco Activist Joan Baker DiesPortland Legislative Aide Keeston Lowery DiesRoy London — Influencial Acting Teacher — Dies‘Soul Train Music Awards’ Producer Anthony Sabatino DiesRick Redewill — Owner of San Francisco’s Lone Star Saloon — DiesWest Hollywood Pharmacy Owner Loyd Tittle DiesSOMA Event Producer Jerry Vallaire DiesEZTV Founder John Dorr Dies11-year-old Glendale Boy Dies#1 Cause of Death for Young Adult Men is AIDSDavid Oliver, Emmy-winning Actor, DiesBisexual Rights Activist David Lourea DiesKeith Prentice — Larry in ‘Boys in the Band’ — DiesRon Woodroof, Founder of Dallas Buyers Club, DiesMr. International Leather of 1983 DiesAlexis Sorel — Radical Faerie from Columbia — DiesAIDS Awareness Advocate Alison Gertz DiesActivist & Fundraiser Randall Klose DiesRobert Nemchik, Los Angeles Activist, DiesRoger ‘Jim’ Thompson — Bay Area Craftsman — DiesBroadway Showman & Songwriter Peter Allen DiesRobert Pruzan — Bay Area Photographer — DiesBrady Bunch’s Robert Reed DiesRobert Gladstein, Choreographer for San Francisco Ballet, DiesWest Hollywood Activist Edward Riney DiesScience Fiction Writer Isaac Asimov DiesLavender Hill Mob’s Marty Robinson DiesClark Tippet, ABT Dancer-Choreographer, DiesTheater Director AJ Antoon DiesMuppeteer Richard Hunt DiesSan Francisco Leatherman & Artist ‘Cirby’ DiesPaul Martin Heltsley — San Francisco Writer-Editor — DiesTony Richardson, Oscar-Winning Director, DiesNavy Vet & Leatherman Robert Douty DiesSan Francisco Drag Performer Tippi / Erik Mead DiesSan Francisco AIDS Activist Zach Long DiesSteven Grossman — Singer-Songwriter of ‘Caravan Tonight’ — DiesDrag Performer Doris Fish / Philip Mills DiesThomas Hannan — Opera Singer & AIDS Activist — DiesTommy Lasorda Jr, Son of Dodgers Manager, DiesA Chorus Line’s Nicholas Dante Dies‘Predator’ Actor Kevin Peter Hall DiesDisney Lyricist Howard Ashman DiesEdward Stierle, Joffrey Dancer-Choreographer, DiesTrans Author-Activist Lou Graydon Sullivan DiesBay Area Dancer Antonio Mendes DiesSan Francisco Playwright Robert Chesley DiesVideo Artist-Activist Ray Navarro DiesFilm Historian Vito Russo DiesVirtuoso Pianist Jorge Bolet DiesActor-Singer Ray Stephens DiesSan Francisco Business Owner James Heady DiesBay Area AIDS Fundraiser David Lewis DiesBobby DeBarge, of R&B Band DeBarge, DiesBrazilian Rock Star Cazuza DiesBay Area Comedian Jim Samuels DiesPaul Giovanni — Composer for ‘Wicker Man’ Soundtrack — DiesNYC Fashion Illustrator George Stavrinos DiesNYC Dancer Demian ‘D-Man’ Acquavella DiesActor Stephan Burns of ‘The Thorn Birds’ DiesFilmmaker Bill Sherwood DiesTheater Director Leland Moss DiesFashion Trailblazer Patrick Kelly DiesChicago Theater Director Gary Tucker DiesFrench Actor Rémi Laurent DiesCynthia Slater — Founder of Society of Janus — DiesStage & Film Actor Michael Carmine DiesActor Paul Shenar – Alejandro Sosa in ‘Scarface’ – DiesDrummer Movie Critic Kenny Lackey DiesJack Smith, of ‘Flaming Creatures’ Notoriety, DiesFashion Designer Angel Estrada DiesAIDS Cases in U.S. Reaches 100,000Amanda Blake — TV’s Miss Kitty on ‘Gunsmoke’ — DiesGeoff Mains — Author of ‘Urban Aboriginals’ — DiesTV Soap Villain Christopher Bernau DiesVirgil Pearson-Smith, Dancer with Metropolitan Opera, DiesPlaywright James Kirkwood Jr. DiesVisual AIDS Founder William Olander DiesMike Rasfeld, Chicago Recording Artist, DiesTV-Film Actor Merritt Butrick DiesDr. Richard Hamilton — Bay Area Doctor — DiesWHO Estimates Total AIDS Cases Worldwide at 400,000Pediatric Cases Grow to 1,440, with Blacks & Hispanics at 76%NYT Fashion Columnist John Duka DiesClaude Duvall — Founder of Noh Oratorio Society — DiesGay GOP Activist Duke Armstrong DiesChoreographer to the Stars Howard ‘Howie’ Jeffrey Dies‘Father of West Hollywood’ Ron Stone DiesColin Higgins — ‘Harold & Maude’ Screenwriter — DiesGerman Actor Kurt Raab DiesOpera Conductor Andrew Meltzer DiesSociety of Janus Editor Mark Joplin DiesNYC Choreographer Arnie Zane DiesBay Area Artist Chuck Arnett DiesMichael Cappara, Founder of City Centre Ballet, DiesMost Americans Cite AIDS as World’s Most Urgent Health IssueDancer-Choreographer Jorge Samaniego DiesCost of Ongoing AIDS Treatment Estimated at $50 BillionSan Francisco Ballet Dancer Sean O’Neill DiesBroadway Director Michael Bennett DiesGMHC President Paul Popham DiesSacramento Classical Musician Neal LoMonaco DiesBlack & Latinx Cases Grow at Higher RateNYC Interior Designer Robin Jacobsen DiesCelebrity Make-Up Artist Way Bandy DiesLeading Ballet Dancer Charles Ward DiesHerman George — Costume Designer for ‘Babylon’ — DiesAward-winning Lyricist Howard Greenfield DiesGlobal Scope of Epidemic Becomes EvidentInfant Dwight Burk DiesAIDS Infections Reach 10,000, per CDC HeadcountLawrence ‘La-La’ Beach — Owner of SF’s Balcony — DiesCalvin Hampton — Organist for Calvary Episcopal Church — DiesPortugese Pop Star António Variações DiesTheatre Rhinoceros Founder Allan Estes DiesCanadian flight Attendant Gaëtan Dugas DiesRussell Hartley, Performing Arts Archivist, DiesAIDS Patient Flown from Florida to California & ‘Dumped’Singer-Performer Klaus Nomi DiesSinger-Musician Jobriath DiesKen Ramsauer – First Person with AIDS on TV – Memorialized in Central ParkInfant Diagnosed with AIDS Following Blood TransfusionCDC Reports Additional Pediatric CasesCDC Issues First Report on Pediatric AIDS Case by TransfusionMusician & Producer Patrick Cowley DiesJimmy Howell – Bay Area Dance Teacher – DiesSan Francisco Dancer Larry Hinneman DiesTerrence Higgins – Hansard Reporter in UK – DiesBilly Kovinsky is First Canadian Known to Die of AIDSDancer-Choreographer Antony Valdor DiesStonewall President Kenneth Schnorr Dies45% of Patients Die by Year-EndKen Horne Dies of Kaposi’s Sarcoma in San Francisco‘Patient D’ Dies at NIH Facility