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A Journey Years in the Making

Story of The Monument: From collective idea to breaking ground.

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Why Now?

For The AIDS Monument, perspective is everything.

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Jane Lynch on the Importance of the AIDS Monument

Actress Jane Lynch discusses The AIDS Monument's relevance in celebrating the traces left by the people we lost to the AIDS epidemic.

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Conversation with AIDS Memorial Leaders

An event commemorating lives lost and acts of courage.

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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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West Hollywood in the Early Years

West Hollywood was among the U.S. communities hit especially hard.

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Loss

Survivors talk about lives lost in early years of AIDS epidemic.

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Pam Yelsky 2023 Interview

Pam Yelsky shares her story about raising her young stepson born with HIV, while managing her own HIV diagnosis. This interview was recorded at the Women's STORIES Circle event in November 2023.

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Traci Bivens-Davis: HIV looks like me

Communities of color continue to be impacted by HIV/AIDS

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Tony Valenzuela: I had been terrified of getting HIV since I was a kid

How being HIV-positive became journey of treatment instead of death sentence.

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Rabbi Denise Eger: I was one of the only two rabbis in town that would bury people with AIDS and HIV

Support was desperately needed from religious leaders as AIDS crisis raged.

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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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