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2024 World AIDS Day Commemoration (53 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument commemorated World AIDS Day with a panel discussion titled The AIDS Community Then and Now: An Inter-Generational Dialog. The event was held on December 1, 2024 on the Respite Deck of the Aquatics & Recreation Center in West Hollywood Park, a venue that overlooks the future site of STORIES: The AIDS Monument.

Watch a 53-minute video of the event featuring an inter-generational panel of HIV/AIDS activists and awareness advocates (Roland Palencia, Peter Cashman, Raif Derrazi, and Michael Fields) discussing how living, caregiving and advocacy in the Los Angeles area during the height of the AIDS epidemic helped those with HIV/AIDS feel a sense of community, and how that community is created or is lacking in today’s social media-dominated culture.

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2024 World AIDS Day Commemoration (8 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument commemorated World AIDS Day with a panel discussion titled "The AIDS Community Then and Now: An Inter-Generational Dialog." The event was held on December 1, 2024 on the Respite Deck of the Aquatics & Recreation Center in West Hollywood Park, a venue that overlooks the future site of STORIES: The AIDS Monument. Watch an eight-minute video of the event highlights.

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STORIES Circle Event with the LA LGBT Center (6 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted an intergenerational STORIES Circle event with the Los Angeles LGBT Center on June 5, 2024. Watch a six-minute video of the event highlights.

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STORIES Circle Event with APAIT (7.5 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted a STORIES Circle event with Access to Prevention Advocacy Intervention & Training (APAIT) on May 18, 2024. Watch a seven-and-a-half-minute video of the event highlights.

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2023 World AIDS Day Commemoration

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument partnered with APLA Health to co-host a World AIDS Day commemoration in West Hollywood Park. The event, which was co-sponsored by the City of West Hollywood, included a reception, candlelight procession and free screening of the AIDS documentary "Commitment to Life." Funding for this event was also provided by a generous grant from Gilead Sciences.

Watch a 3-minute video of the event highlights.

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STORIES Circle Event for Women (40 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted “Women’s STORIES Circle,” a story-telling event for women, on November 7, 2023, the ninth event in the STORIES Circle story-telling event series. Watch a 40-minute video of the event featuring speakers Patsy Lawson, an HIV+ mother, and Sherri Lewis, an HIV+ educator and writer who serves on FAM's Board of Directors.

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STORIES Circle Event for Women (7 min)

The Foundation for The AIDS Monument (FAM) hosted “Women’s STORIES Circle,” a story-telling event for women, on November 7, 2023, the ninth event in the STORIES Circle story-telling event series. Watch a 7-minute video of the event highlights.

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STORIES Circle Event with Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center (35 min)

FAM partnered with the Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center on June 22, 2023 for “TransTales: Stories of Toil & Triumph,” the eighth event in the STORIES Circle story-telling event series. Watch a 35-minute video featuring event speaker Melody Torres, the National Director of Health and Wellness at FLUX.

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STORIES Circle Event with the Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center (5 min)

FAM partnered with the Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center on June 22, 2023 for “TransTales: Stories of Toil & Triumph,” the eighth event in the STORIES Circle story-telling event series. Watch a five-minute video of the event highlights.

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Hollywood and HIV/AIDS

The impact of HIV and AIDS on the Hollywood community and the ways in which the media and entertainment industry responded transformed how the public viewed the disease.

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Stephen Simon: People were dying so fast that their attorneys couldn’t finish their wills

Activism came in many forms during height of HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Maria Roman: The programming for Trans People

Trans community fight for own survival as HIV/AIDS crisis persists.

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