i remember my very first friend, monti tetro, who had aids. i met him at a tacky trashy party in the early 70's on the upperwestside. monti was the only one at the party willing to sit on the floor with me even tho it did not seem the proper protocol. monti spoke several languages and lived in a luxurious yet simple dormer apartment in the ansonia hotel while living the gay life of 1970's New York City.
he passed with aids in '82? we didn't know what it was then, or how to get it. when i went to the hospital and and found one of the most beautiful men i had ever met starving to death because of this gay desease that turned out to be aids. I was dumb founded and asked myself, in ignorance, why isn't he eating -- this can't happen in america!
no one at the hospital would come near him without masks/gloves/frocks. i kissed him on the forehead when we met. i touch his dry skin and attempted to confort him. i am glad i went, even tho he asked for the return of the gorgeous statue of shiva i loved so much, and was hoping to keep, just two weeks before he died.
chris was another story..............
i have noticed since the early 80's, that every ten years we all need to discuss aids again, for the new generation that has come up. we may never assume that people should know, we all need to teach.
love,
merlin
(first post on mothernyc)
Judge Orders City To Provide AIDS Services In Timely Manner
AIDS advocates are applauding a federal judge's ruling that orders the New York City Division of AIDS Services and Income Support to provide benefits and services in a timely manner to thousands of New Yorkers living with AIDS.
In the ruling, dated Dec. 11, Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Eastern District Court of New York ordered the city to comply with existing legal mandates requiring the city to provide the benefits and services in a timely manner. The ruling also requires DASIS to issue dated receipts indicating the time of requests for assistance made by DASIS clients.
In September 2000, Johnson issued a 97-page ruling that said the city's "widespread and systemic failure" to provide services to people living with HIV and AIDS violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as state law.
That scathing ruling appointed a federal magistrate judge to monitor DASIS for three years to ensure things improve, giving the magistrate the power to recommend penalties and sanctions if she found DASIS did not improve its service to people with AIDS. Johnson also wrote that DASIS consistently closed cases for no reason, leaving clients without needed benefits, and that DASIS, by its own admission, retaliated against clients who sought remedies by closing their cases again, even after being ordered by courts to reopen them.
The city appealed Johnson's ruling, which stemmed from a class-action lawsuit against the city, first brought in 1995 by Housing Works, the HIV Law Project, and the firm Pillsbury Winthrop LLP.
The suit charged that the city was violating federal and state law by failing to house people with AIDS on a timely basis or process benefits for them. The case was brought on behalf of thousands of clients of DASIS, an arm of the city Human Resources Administration, that has been a sore point between AIDS activists and the Giuliani administration almost since he took office. In 1994, Giuliani sought to dismantle the agency entirely.
Armen Merjian, a staff lawyer for Housing Works, is applauding Johnson's latest ruling.
"It's a wonderful decision -- and long overdue," Merjian said Wednesday.
In addition to having to comply with existing legal mandates, the city must, for three years, operate a troubleshooter system whereby DASIS clients can call in complaints that they're having with DASIS.
"The troubleshooter will exist to expedite resolution of those complaints," explained Merjian.
The troubleshooter will report to Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak, who has been empowered to monitor the city's compliance with the law. The city must also provide monthly reports to the judge regarding its performance -- in particular its timeliness -- in providing benefits and service for which clients are eligible.
A spokesperson from the city's corporation counsel's office did not respond to the Blade's inquiry by presstime.
By Inga Sorensen , NYBlade, December 21
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AIDS advocates are applauding a federal judge's ruling that orders the New York City Division of AIDS Services and Income Support to provide benefits and services in a timely manner to thousands of New Yorkers living with AIDS.
In the ruling, dated Dec. 11, Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of the Eastern District Court of New York ordered the city to comply with existing legal mandates requiring the city to provide the benefits and services in a timely manner. The ruling also requires DASIS to issue dated receipts indicating the time of requests for assistance made by DASIS clients.
In September 2000, Johnson issued a 97-page ruling that said the city's "widespread and systemic failure" to provide services to people living with HIV and AIDS violated the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as state law.
That scathing ruling appointed a federal magistrate judge to monitor DASIS for three years to ensure things improve, giving the magistrate the power to recommend penalties and sanctions if she found DASIS did not improve its service to people with AIDS. Johnson also wrote that DASIS consistently closed cases for no reason, leaving clients without needed benefits, and that DASIS, by its own admission, retaliated against clients who sought remedies by closing their cases again, even after being ordered by courts to reopen them.
The city appealed Johnson's ruling, which stemmed from a class-action lawsuit against the city, first brought in 1995 by Housing Works, the HIV Law Project, and the firm Pillsbury Winthrop LLP.
The suit charged that the city was violating federal and state law by failing to house people with AIDS on a timely basis or process benefits for them. The case was brought on behalf of thousands of clients of DASIS, an arm of the city Human Resources Administration, that has been a sore point between AIDS activists and the Giuliani administration almost since he took office. In 1994, Giuliani sought to dismantle the agency entirely.
Armen Merjian, a staff lawyer for Housing Works, is applauding Johnson's latest ruling.
"It's a wonderful decision -- and long overdue," Merjian said Wednesday.
In addition to having to comply with existing legal mandates, the city must, for three years, operate a troubleshooter system whereby DASIS clients can call in complaints that they're having with DASIS.
"The troubleshooter will exist to expedite resolution of those complaints," explained Merjian.
The troubleshooter will report to Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak, who has been empowered to monitor the city's compliance with the law. The city must also provide monthly reports to the judge regarding its performance -- in particular its timeliness -- in providing benefits and service for which clients are eligible.
A spokesperson from the city's corporation counsel's office did not respond to the Blade's inquiry by presstime.
By Inga Sorensen , NYBlade, December 21
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It's about time you joined the party Merlin, we've been waiting for you.
Confronted with reports of increasing sexually transmitted diseases and new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is embarking on a campaign to reverse those trends.
"We want to make sure that these issues stay highly elevated, that issues related to HIV prevention continue to be discussed in a productive manner and not let people revert to the most simplistic explanation that HIV prevention doesn�t work,� said Dr. Ronald O. Valdisseri, deputy director of the CDC�s National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention.
Over the past three months the CDC has held four meetings with community groups, and state and local health agencies to talk about recent developments in the AIDS epidemic and HIV prevention for men. Valdisseri and Terry Hammond, a CDC media relations director, sat down with LGNY for an hour-long chat on December 11 as part of the effort to raise the profile of HIV prevention.
The CDC issued a bulletin earlier this year raising the alarm over what might be a resurgent HIV epidemic among gay men. The bulletin also detailed prevention efforts for men who have sex with men. The agency will issue a guidance to AIDS groups that is meant to help those agencies in delivering HIV prevention services to gay and bisexual men.
Researchers give a number of reasons for some gay men giving up safe sex practices. Drugs and alcohol can lead men to be unsafe or they may have grown tired of being safe. A desire for a feeling of greater intimacy makes some toss the condoms. New and effective treatments may make the disease seem less threatening.
�When people became infected in the '80s it was a death sentence,� Valdisseri said. �It isn�t anymore... That perhaps doesn�t give us the contextual oomph that we had earlier in the epidemic.�
At the same time, some in the gay community have said that the AIDS epidemic is over. Andrew Sullivan made that point in �When Plagues End: Notes on the Twilight of an Epidemic� for The New York Times Magazine article in 1996. One group, Act UP/San Francisco, has attacked researchers and journalists who have reported studies showing increasing STDs and HIV infections among gay men.
The gay men�s health movement wants to make AIDS no more important and no less important than any other health concern. Eric Rofes, a Californian who is a leading voice in that movement, has said that while AIDS remains a community concern it is no longer a crisis. Rofes has also objected to what he has termed the overly sensational coverage of recent studies on STD and HIV increases among gay men.
�There are certainly a few people who continue to try to discount it,� said Terry Hammond, a CDC media relations director. �Whether that is because they are misinformed or whether that is purposeful who knows, but I�ve seen no reasonable epidemiologist who looked at all of these data taken together who said �This is not a problem.��
�We�d like to see this stay on the agenda,� Hammond said. �I think that some of the more traditional gay community organizations have moved on to other issues.�
Burnout may have reached prevention professionals as well. In a recent interview with gay.com, Dr. Thomas Coates, the head of San Francisco�s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, suggested that the community should surrender when asked how the gay community can stem the spread of HIV.
�Well, maybe we should just stop,� Coates said. �Maybe we should just make lots of condoms available... and just accept that every year there will be a certain percentage of people who will get HIV... AIDS just is not the dreaded disease it once was in the gay community, and, perhaps, people are taking risks because they have other priorities such as feeling loved, feeling desired, and getting laid.�
Coates did propose a second option that included analysis of who was getting infected today and focusing prevention efforts on those men.
�I�m not sure what Tom�s motives were, but I think that, in what he says, it gives anyone, the listener, the reader, a sense of how complicated this is,� Valdisseri said. �There are overriding emotional motives, there are other health concerns and those make it difficult.�
Additionally, the prevention push comes as the Bush administration is scrutinizing the CDC�s HIV prevention budget. Some rightwing groups and elected officials have called for those funds to be slashed.
�We are going to be entering an era where a lot of folks are going to be asking questions about HIV prevention,� Valdisseri said. �The way I look at it is that there are going to be a lot of questions being asked about what works and how can we make our programs more effective. I think if they ask those questions and they inform that discussion then that will be helpful for us.�
Indeed, as the AIDS epidemic enters its third decade there are more questions about the success of HIV prevention. New York City will spend $33.0 million on HIV prevention this year. The Big Apple is seeing a syphilis outbreak and increasing new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men.
City testing of 436 anonymous blood samples collected at STD clinics in 1999 from gay and bisexual men found that 8.4 percent of the gay men had been infected that year. The incidence rate, or the percent newly infected in a year, among bisexual men was 4.9 percent. Other studies have shown infection high rates among African-American and Latino men.
"This is an incidence rate in men who have sex with men that we have not seen since the late 1980s,� said Dr. Lucia V. Torian, director of AIDS research and HIV sero-surveys at the city health department, in March.
San Francisco will spend $16.0 million on HIV prevention this year yet that city found that incidence among men who have sex with men using HIV testing sites there climbed from 1.3 percent in 1997 to 2.6 percent in 1998 to 3.7 percent in 1999.
Valdisseri said he did not know enough about any city to comment on their HIV prevention efforts, but he did offer a general response.
�Despite the fact that we might say that, relatively speaking, San Francisco has a lot of resources, one hypothesis might be it is still not enough,� he said. �After all we do have more people living with HIV now than at any other time in the past and more and more diverse populations.�
It might also be that the programs are not right for the communities they are reaching, Valdisseri said. He noted that marketers in the private sector regularly change their messages in response to marketplace tastes.
�I don�t know that public health does that to the degree that it should,� Valdisseri said. �First of all, we don�t often have the resources to do that and, sometimes, we don�t have the expertise to do that.�
Despite the obstacles the CDC is forging ahead. The agency sounded the alarm earlier this year and it will continue.
�The whole picture was such that we thought that that information was adequate for action,� Valdisseri said. �I would still say it�s a very worthwhile investment of resources to prevent people from becoming infected with HIV.�
By DUNCAN OSBORNE
LGNY, January 3, 2002
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"We want to make sure that these issues stay highly elevated, that issues related to HIV prevention continue to be discussed in a productive manner and not let people revert to the most simplistic explanation that HIV prevention doesn�t work,� said Dr. Ronald O. Valdisseri, deputy director of the CDC�s National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention.
Over the past three months the CDC has held four meetings with community groups, and state and local health agencies to talk about recent developments in the AIDS epidemic and HIV prevention for men. Valdisseri and Terry Hammond, a CDC media relations director, sat down with LGNY for an hour-long chat on December 11 as part of the effort to raise the profile of HIV prevention.
The CDC issued a bulletin earlier this year raising the alarm over what might be a resurgent HIV epidemic among gay men. The bulletin also detailed prevention efforts for men who have sex with men. The agency will issue a guidance to AIDS groups that is meant to help those agencies in delivering HIV prevention services to gay and bisexual men.
Researchers give a number of reasons for some gay men giving up safe sex practices. Drugs and alcohol can lead men to be unsafe or they may have grown tired of being safe. A desire for a feeling of greater intimacy makes some toss the condoms. New and effective treatments may make the disease seem less threatening.
�When people became infected in the '80s it was a death sentence,� Valdisseri said. �It isn�t anymore... That perhaps doesn�t give us the contextual oomph that we had earlier in the epidemic.�
At the same time, some in the gay community have said that the AIDS epidemic is over. Andrew Sullivan made that point in �When Plagues End: Notes on the Twilight of an Epidemic� for The New York Times Magazine article in 1996. One group, Act UP/San Francisco, has attacked researchers and journalists who have reported studies showing increasing STDs and HIV infections among gay men.
The gay men�s health movement wants to make AIDS no more important and no less important than any other health concern. Eric Rofes, a Californian who is a leading voice in that movement, has said that while AIDS remains a community concern it is no longer a crisis. Rofes has also objected to what he has termed the overly sensational coverage of recent studies on STD and HIV increases among gay men.
�There are certainly a few people who continue to try to discount it,� said Terry Hammond, a CDC media relations director. �Whether that is because they are misinformed or whether that is purposeful who knows, but I�ve seen no reasonable epidemiologist who looked at all of these data taken together who said �This is not a problem.��
�We�d like to see this stay on the agenda,� Hammond said. �I think that some of the more traditional gay community organizations have moved on to other issues.�
Burnout may have reached prevention professionals as well. In a recent interview with gay.com, Dr. Thomas Coates, the head of San Francisco�s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, suggested that the community should surrender when asked how the gay community can stem the spread of HIV.
�Well, maybe we should just stop,� Coates said. �Maybe we should just make lots of condoms available... and just accept that every year there will be a certain percentage of people who will get HIV... AIDS just is not the dreaded disease it once was in the gay community, and, perhaps, people are taking risks because they have other priorities such as feeling loved, feeling desired, and getting laid.�
Coates did propose a second option that included analysis of who was getting infected today and focusing prevention efforts on those men.
�I�m not sure what Tom�s motives were, but I think that, in what he says, it gives anyone, the listener, the reader, a sense of how complicated this is,� Valdisseri said. �There are overriding emotional motives, there are other health concerns and those make it difficult.�
Additionally, the prevention push comes as the Bush administration is scrutinizing the CDC�s HIV prevention budget. Some rightwing groups and elected officials have called for those funds to be slashed.
�We are going to be entering an era where a lot of folks are going to be asking questions about HIV prevention,� Valdisseri said. �The way I look at it is that there are going to be a lot of questions being asked about what works and how can we make our programs more effective. I think if they ask those questions and they inform that discussion then that will be helpful for us.�
Indeed, as the AIDS epidemic enters its third decade there are more questions about the success of HIV prevention. New York City will spend $33.0 million on HIV prevention this year. The Big Apple is seeing a syphilis outbreak and increasing new HIV infections among gay and bisexual men.
City testing of 436 anonymous blood samples collected at STD clinics in 1999 from gay and bisexual men found that 8.4 percent of the gay men had been infected that year. The incidence rate, or the percent newly infected in a year, among bisexual men was 4.9 percent. Other studies have shown infection high rates among African-American and Latino men.
"This is an incidence rate in men who have sex with men that we have not seen since the late 1980s,� said Dr. Lucia V. Torian, director of AIDS research and HIV sero-surveys at the city health department, in March.
San Francisco will spend $16.0 million on HIV prevention this year yet that city found that incidence among men who have sex with men using HIV testing sites there climbed from 1.3 percent in 1997 to 2.6 percent in 1998 to 3.7 percent in 1999.
Valdisseri said he did not know enough about any city to comment on their HIV prevention efforts, but he did offer a general response.
�Despite the fact that we might say that, relatively speaking, San Francisco has a lot of resources, one hypothesis might be it is still not enough,� he said. �After all we do have more people living with HIV now than at any other time in the past and more and more diverse populations.�
It might also be that the programs are not right for the communities they are reaching, Valdisseri said. He noted that marketers in the private sector regularly change their messages in response to marketplace tastes.
�I don�t know that public health does that to the degree that it should,� Valdisseri said. �First of all, we don�t often have the resources to do that and, sometimes, we don�t have the expertise to do that.�
Despite the obstacles the CDC is forging ahead. The agency sounded the alarm earlier this year and it will continue.
�The whole picture was such that we thought that that information was adequate for action,� Valdisseri said. �I would still say it�s a very worthwhile investment of resources to prevent people from becoming infected with HIV.�
By DUNCAN OSBORNE
LGNY, January 3, 2002
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(Saturday January 12, 9AM-5PM.)
This conference is sponsored by HX & Abbott Laboratories and presented by NYU, Body Positive, and the Center for HIV/AIDS Education Studies and Trainng (CHEST). Speakers include MD's from New York Blood Center, St. Vincent's Hospital, Harvard School of Medecine and New York University.
Space is limited so make reservations now!
(212)566-7333 X10--For more info. and registration call Kim.
(212)566-7333 15--To reserve a table call Tim.
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This conference is sponsored by HX & Abbott Laboratories and presented by NYU, Body Positive, and the Center for HIV/AIDS Education Studies and Trainng (CHEST). Speakers include MD's from New York Blood Center, St. Vincent's Hospital, Harvard School of Medecine and New York University.
Space is limited so make reservations now!
(212)566-7333 X10--For more info. and registration call Kim.
(212)566-7333 15--To reserve a table call Tim.
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(Wednesdays, 8PM.)
Information on alternative treatment.
(718)873-0780
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Information on alternative treatment.
(718)873-0780
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(Wednesdays, 6:30PM, Through March, 2002. Free.)
Join a support group for recently diagnosd men who have sex with men.
Call Paul for more information:
(212)271-7168
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Join a support group for recently diagnosd men who have sex with men.
Call Paul for more information:
(212)271-7168
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(Thursday February 14, 6PM)
(Thursday January 17, 6PM.)
Self-help support group for HIV negative men who cannot stop having unsafe sex.
Call Lou for details:
(212)673-0392
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*AIDS Vaccine 3-Day*
-To Benefit UCLA AIDS Institute, Aasron Diamond AIDS Research Center, and he Emory Vaccine Center-
(Friday July 19th-Sunday July 21st, 2002.)
A 3-day/60 mile march from Bear Mountain,NY to Manhattan to help search for the AIDS vaccine. The march is designed for people of all ages, shapes and sizes. "Mobile City" will provide hot meals, showers, massage and chiropractic services.
For catalogue:
1-(800)378-1525
Or online:
www.BeThePeople.com
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*The Smart Couples Project*
-For Couples Involving One Positve and One Negative HIV Partner-
A research study requiring several paid confidential interviews that will make you eligible to enter a program that helps you and your partner deal with medical and HIV.
Sponsored by the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the NYS Psychiatric Institute in conjunction with the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Center for Comprhensive Care.
For Information:
(212)740-3202
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*Spellbound/Blue Ball 2002*
-To Benefit.."Philadelphia Fight"-
The area's largest AIDS organization providing services regardless of ability to pay, research, prevention and education.
One of the biggest circuit parties with a large roster of DJs, drag and other varied performances and entertainment.
Drag Entertainment includes:
Blue Redo Galz do a little "tu-tu" stepping.
Azure, Periwinkle and Cobalt will take center stage for the premiere performance of the "Dance of the Blue Wigs," with a little help from their back-up dancers, the men and women of the Pennsylvania Ballet. Don't ask. Just be there. At the Trocadero Theatre Sunday night for the famed Blue Redo Closing Party.
Shamblue
@Shampoo
8th & Willow Streets
Philadelphia, Pa
(215)922-7500
For full information on in-person & online tickets, full schedule of events, DJs and performers, hotel packages,etc.:
www.blueballphilly.com
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(Thursday January 17, 6PM.)
Self-help support group for HIV negative men who cannot stop having unsafe sex.
Call Lou for details:
(212)673-0392
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*AIDS Vaccine 3-Day*
-To Benefit UCLA AIDS Institute, Aasron Diamond AIDS Research Center, and he Emory Vaccine Center-
(Friday July 19th-Sunday July 21st, 2002.)
A 3-day/60 mile march from Bear Mountain,NY to Manhattan to help search for the AIDS vaccine. The march is designed for people of all ages, shapes and sizes. "Mobile City" will provide hot meals, showers, massage and chiropractic services.
For catalogue:
1-(800)378-1525
Or online:
www.BeThePeople.com
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*The Smart Couples Project*
-For Couples Involving One Positve and One Negative HIV Partner-
A research study requiring several paid confidential interviews that will make you eligible to enter a program that helps you and your partner deal with medical and HIV.
Sponsored by the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the NYS Psychiatric Institute in conjunction with the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Center for Comprhensive Care.
For Information:
(212)740-3202
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*Spellbound/Blue Ball 2002*
-To Benefit.."Philadelphia Fight"-
The area's largest AIDS organization providing services regardless of ability to pay, research, prevention and education.
One of the biggest circuit parties with a large roster of DJs, drag and other varied performances and entertainment.
Drag Entertainment includes:
Blue Redo Galz do a little "tu-tu" stepping.
Azure, Periwinkle and Cobalt will take center stage for the premiere performance of the "Dance of the Blue Wigs," with a little help from their back-up dancers, the men and women of the Pennsylvania Ballet. Don't ask. Just be there. At the Trocadero Theatre Sunday night for the famed Blue Redo Closing Party.
Shamblue
@Shampoo
8th & Willow Streets
Philadelphia, Pa
(215)922-7500
For full information on in-person & online tickets, full schedule of events, DJs and performers, hotel packages,etc.:
www.blueballphilly.com
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*Date Bait: HIV+Event*
(Saturday January 26.)
Fun, structured and result-oriented singles mixers.
@LGBT Center
208 West 13th Street
(212)971-1084..(Call for time - how it works.)
www.datebait.com
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*You Gotta Have Friends*
Partners in the Fight Against AIDS
-Benefit Concert for GMHC-
(Thursday January 31, 7:30PM, Wide range of prices/packages- Call for more information.)
Hosted by Whoopie Goldberg this benefit features R.E.M., Bruce Vilanch, Jewel, Sweet Honey In The Rock and surprise guests!
@Carnegie Hall
Seventh Avenue & 57th Street
(212)247-7800..Carnegie Charge for Tickets
Benefit Level Tickets include reception with cast:
(212)245-6570..You Gotta Have Friends Office
Tickets online:
www.gmhc.org
*Tickets are also available at Carnegie Hall Box Office.
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*Alchemy 4*
-Morning Benefit for amFAR's HIV/AIDS Directory-
(Sunday January 20, 10AM-8:30PM, $65,
DJs:Michael Duretto, Carlos Pedraza.)
@Snapper Bear Stuios
8 Bond Street
(212806-1558
(212)806-1601
alchemy@amfar.org
www.boxofficetckets.com
1-800-494 TIXS
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(Saturday January 26.)
Fun, structured and result-oriented singles mixers.
@LGBT Center
208 West 13th Street
(212)971-1084..(Call for time - how it works.)
www.datebait.com
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*You Gotta Have Friends*
Partners in the Fight Against AIDS
-Benefit Concert for GMHC-
(Thursday January 31, 7:30PM, Wide range of prices/packages- Call for more information.)
Hosted by Whoopie Goldberg this benefit features R.E.M., Bruce Vilanch, Jewel, Sweet Honey In The Rock and surprise guests!
@Carnegie Hall
Seventh Avenue & 57th Street
(212)247-7800..Carnegie Charge for Tickets
Benefit Level Tickets include reception with cast:
(212)245-6570..You Gotta Have Friends Office
Tickets online:
www.gmhc.org
*Tickets are also available at Carnegie Hall Box Office.
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*Alchemy 4*
-Morning Benefit for amFAR's HIV/AIDS Directory-
(Sunday January 20, 10AM-8:30PM, $65,
DJs:Michael Duretto, Carlos Pedraza.)
@Snapper Bear Stuios
8 Bond Street
(212806-1558
(212)806-1601
alchemy@amfar.org
www.boxofficetckets.com
1-800-494 TIXS
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(Monday January 28, 3AM, Sundance Channel.)
Paul Monette won a National Book Award for his 1992 memoires.
He collaborated with Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg shortly before his death to document his life with AIDS.
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Paul Monette won a National Book Award for his 1992 memoires.
He collaborated with Monte Bramer and Lesli Klainberg shortly before his death to document his life with AIDS.
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-Benefits Body Positive-
(First & Third Tuesdays of the Month, 6PM-9PM, $10.)
Gay Professionals of all stripes socialize and network.
@XL
357 West 16th Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Avenues)
(212)995-1400
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*Northeast AIDSRide*
(Orientation-Every Monday from January 7-June 3rd and every second Saturday from January-May. Ride takes place June 20th-23rd.)
A 350 mile bicycle ride from Bear Mountain, NY to Boston, Massachusetts to benefit AIDS service organizations that the ride passes through. Benefits will include drug availability, counseling, education, and meals to homebound.
Palotta TeamWork's holds orientation sessions for the upcoming ride, for first year riders and those considering participating. Session lasts for 1 1/2 hours. Short video, discussions of training for the event and fundraising.
(800)825-1000...for more information
www.bethepeople.com
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Concerns over AIDS Funding
By Inga Sorensen
New York Blade, January 25, 2002
In its Jan. 22 AIDS Issues Update, the New York City AIDS organization Housing Works sounded the alarm over Pataki's spending plan, saying the proposal "moves to eliminate several crucial AIDS service programs and to carry out multimillion dollar cuts to others � for the second year in a row."
According to Housing Works, Pataki has again proposed cutting $7.9 million in funding for 175 AIDS service providers around the state. Pataki's plan, it says, would eliminate two crucial AIDS programs: the treatment adherence program, which helps people living with AIDS and HIV comply with complicated medication schedules of up to 70 pills a day; and the permanency planning program, which helps HIV-positive parents plan for the care of their young children in the event of death or long-term hospitalization.
Housing Works is also angry that Pataki has proposed a $10 million cut in the Homeless Housing Assistance Program, which provides construction funding for supportive housing programs and is New York's largest source of new apartments for homeless people living with AIDS and HIV.
Additionally, it charges that Pataki's budget "fails to address the crisis of AIDS in communities of color, and would carry out multimillion dollar cuts to community-based AIDS service providers already reeling from similar cuts in last year�s 'bare-bones' budget."
"AIDS cases in New York are up by 58 percent and homelessness here is at an all-time high. Our state needs to do more to fight AIDS and house the homeless, not less," said Michael Kink, Housing Works' legislative counsel in Albany.
Ronald Johnson, associate executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, a New York City AIDS group, said, "Until funding levels meet the needs of our communities, we are headed toward letting the crisis control us. We implore Governor Pataki to utilize his 30-day amendment period and commit additional funding to restore previous cuts in HIV/AIDS programming and allocate new funds to fight the epidemic in communities of color."
INFO:
Gov. George Pataki
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
www.state.ny.us/governor/
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(First & Third Tuesdays of the Month, 6PM-9PM, $10.)
Gay Professionals of all stripes socialize and network.
@XL
357 West 16th Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Avenues)
(212)995-1400
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*Northeast AIDSRide*
(Orientation-Every Monday from January 7-June 3rd and every second Saturday from January-May. Ride takes place June 20th-23rd.)
A 350 mile bicycle ride from Bear Mountain, NY to Boston, Massachusetts to benefit AIDS service organizations that the ride passes through. Benefits will include drug availability, counseling, education, and meals to homebound.
Palotta TeamWork's holds orientation sessions for the upcoming ride, for first year riders and those considering participating. Session lasts for 1 1/2 hours. Short video, discussions of training for the event and fundraising.
(800)825-1000...for more information
www.bethepeople.com
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Concerns over AIDS Funding
By Inga Sorensen
New York Blade, January 25, 2002
In its Jan. 22 AIDS Issues Update, the New York City AIDS organization Housing Works sounded the alarm over Pataki's spending plan, saying the proposal "moves to eliminate several crucial AIDS service programs and to carry out multimillion dollar cuts to others � for the second year in a row."
According to Housing Works, Pataki has again proposed cutting $7.9 million in funding for 175 AIDS service providers around the state. Pataki's plan, it says, would eliminate two crucial AIDS programs: the treatment adherence program, which helps people living with AIDS and HIV comply with complicated medication schedules of up to 70 pills a day; and the permanency planning program, which helps HIV-positive parents plan for the care of their young children in the event of death or long-term hospitalization.
Housing Works is also angry that Pataki has proposed a $10 million cut in the Homeless Housing Assistance Program, which provides construction funding for supportive housing programs and is New York's largest source of new apartments for homeless people living with AIDS and HIV.
Additionally, it charges that Pataki's budget "fails to address the crisis of AIDS in communities of color, and would carry out multimillion dollar cuts to community-based AIDS service providers already reeling from similar cuts in last year�s 'bare-bones' budget."
"AIDS cases in New York are up by 58 percent and homelessness here is at an all-time high. Our state needs to do more to fight AIDS and house the homeless, not less," said Michael Kink, Housing Works' legislative counsel in Albany.
Ronald Johnson, associate executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, a New York City AIDS group, said, "Until funding levels meet the needs of our communities, we are headed toward letting the crisis control us. We implore Governor Pataki to utilize his 30-day amendment period and commit additional funding to restore previous cuts in HIV/AIDS programming and allocate new funds to fight the epidemic in communities of color."
INFO:
Gov. George Pataki
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
www.state.ny.us/governor/
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(All of February.)
Donate your clean, used jeans to the Gay Men's Health Crisis and get a 20% discount on brands such as Levi's, Diesel, Energie, G-Star or Lucky Brand when you make the exchange.
@Universal Gear
140 8th Avenue
(212)206-9119
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Donate your clean, used jeans to the Gay Men's Health Crisis and get a 20% discount on brands such as Levi's, Diesel, Energie, G-Star or Lucky Brand when you make the exchange.
@Universal Gear
140 8th Avenue
(212)206-9119
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(Tuesday February 26, 7-9PM, Free.)
A two hour workshop for gay, bisexual men, regardless of HIV status. Bring any questions about HIV transmission, safer sex, testing, oral sex, anal sex, disclosure or whatever else is on your mind.
@GMHC
The Tisch Building
119 West 24th street
(212)807-6655...Hotline
(212)645-7470...TTY (Deaf Access)
www.gmhc.org
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*Open Your Heart*
(Wednesday February 13,
Co-chairs: Susan Sarandon & Alan Cumming, auction follows a reception.)
Fourtenth Annual Baily House Open Your Heart Auction-Items to bid on:
Clothes: John Bartlett, Tommy Hilfiger, Nicole Miller, Todd Oldham, Cynthia Rowley , Phat Farm.
Photographs: David LaChapelle.
Trips: Hawaii, Bali.
Furniture:
One-of-a-kind La-Z-Boy recliners, Matching chairs designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, circa 1938.
Cutting Edge Exercise Equipment:
Enough to open a gym!
@Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
(212)414-2993
www.baileyhouse.org
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*Rouge, Une Fette Boheme*
-Benefit for God's Love We Deliver-
(Thursday February 14, $50-advance, $60-Door,
6-9PM, DJ: Scott Ewalt.)
Twenties, Thirties Parisian/Berlin-style cocktail party with performances by cabaret artists Daniel Isengart and Dana Farner.
@The Chambers Hotel
15 West 56th Street
(212)414-0306
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A two hour workshop for gay, bisexual men, regardless of HIV status. Bring any questions about HIV transmission, safer sex, testing, oral sex, anal sex, disclosure or whatever else is on your mind.
@GMHC
The Tisch Building
119 West 24th street
(212)807-6655...Hotline
(212)645-7470...TTY (Deaf Access)
www.gmhc.org
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*Open Your Heart*
(Wednesday February 13,
Co-chairs: Susan Sarandon & Alan Cumming, auction follows a reception.)
Fourtenth Annual Baily House Open Your Heart Auction-Items to bid on:
Clothes: John Bartlett, Tommy Hilfiger, Nicole Miller, Todd Oldham, Cynthia Rowley , Phat Farm.
Photographs: David LaChapelle.
Trips: Hawaii, Bali.
Furniture:
One-of-a-kind La-Z-Boy recliners, Matching chairs designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, circa 1938.
Cutting Edge Exercise Equipment:
Enough to open a gym!
@Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
(212)414-2993
www.baileyhouse.org
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*Rouge, Une Fette Boheme*
-Benefit for God's Love We Deliver-
(Thursday February 14, $50-advance, $60-Door,
6-9PM, DJ: Scott Ewalt.)
Twenties, Thirties Parisian/Berlin-style cocktail party with performances by cabaret artists Daniel Isengart and Dana Farner.
@The Chambers Hotel
15 West 56th Street
(212)414-0306
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*Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS*
(Sunday February 10)
Yearly auction of one-of-a-kind teddy bears in replica costumes of famous Broaway shows, autographed be the likes of Nathan Lane, Reba McEntire, Kate Burton, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Christine Ebersole, Stephen Sondheim and others.
@B.B.King Blues Club & Grill
237 West 42nd Street
(212)997-4144
(212)997-4511
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(Sunday February 10)
Yearly auction of one-of-a-kind teddy bears in replica costumes of famous Broaway shows, autographed be the likes of Nathan Lane, Reba McEntire, Kate Burton, Barbra Streisand, Julie Andrews, Christine Ebersole, Stephen Sondheim and others.
@B.B.King Blues Club & Grill
237 West 42nd Street
(212)997-4144
(212)997-4511
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*Screen Door*
-Benefit for God's Love We Deliver
& TweedTheatreWorks-
(Monday Feburary 18, 8PM, $25, $45, $75, $100-includes postshow reception, $250-reception, priorty seating, gift bag. After party at Jack Rose.)
Campy staged reading of classic Hollywood film, "Stage Door", who's cast included starlets Katherine Hepburn. Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.
Given a down to earth (with a chuckle) new title-"Screen Door" and with one of today's most happening downtown club headliners- Jackie Hoffman, leading uptown lady- Blaine Trump, drag's most polished divas-Varla Jean Merman & Charles Busch, the funniest commedienne ever-Joan Rivers, and to name just a few favorites thrown in- Mary Birdsong & Sheila MacRae-- This sounds like a Win/Win Situation! ...Directed by Kevin Malony.
@Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
(Bet.Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)294-8138...Tickets/Michael Lombardi
Tickets also sold in person @Town Hall Box Office
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*ABsolutely POZitive*
(Friday February 15, 7PM-11PM.)
NYC Pos Social Party
@Posh
405 West 51st Street
www.Dress-Sire.com/party/
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-Benefit for God's Love We Deliver
& TweedTheatreWorks-
(Monday Feburary 18, 8PM, $25, $45, $75, $100-includes postshow reception, $250-reception, priorty seating, gift bag. After party at Jack Rose.)
Campy staged reading of classic Hollywood film, "Stage Door", who's cast included starlets Katherine Hepburn. Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, and Ann Miller.
Given a down to earth (with a chuckle) new title-"Screen Door" and with one of today's most happening downtown club headliners- Jackie Hoffman, leading uptown lady- Blaine Trump, drag's most polished divas-Varla Jean Merman & Charles Busch, the funniest commedienne ever-Joan Rivers, and to name just a few favorites thrown in- Mary Birdsong & Sheila MacRae-- This sounds like a Win/Win Situation! ...Directed by Kevin Malony.
@Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street
(Bet.Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)294-8138...Tickets/Michael Lombardi
Tickets also sold in person @Town Hall Box Office
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*ABsolutely POZitive*
(Friday February 15, 7PM-11PM.)
NYC Pos Social Party
@Posh
405 West 51st Street
www.Dress-Sire.com/party/
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Will Gorges & Garrett Kimball present:
*Ski Daze 2002*
-Donation to Utah AIDS Foundation-
(Thursday-Sunday February 28-March 3,
Three day party pass-$50.)
Ski at Utah's best resorts, BBQ parties on the slopes, Club parties, Ski Daze Ball.
(310)360-7852... Call Eris-Flights/car rentals
(323)866-7018..All Tix
(1,2,3 day ski & party passes)
Hotel Wyndham SLC
(801)531-7500...mention Ski Days for packages
For party passes:
www.willandgarrett.com
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*Ski Daze 2002*
-Donation to Utah AIDS Foundation-
(Thursday-Sunday February 28-March 3,
Three day party pass-$50.)
Ski at Utah's best resorts, BBQ parties on the slopes, Club parties, Ski Daze Ball.
(310)360-7852... Call Eris-Flights/car rentals
(323)866-7018..All Tix
(1,2,3 day ski & party passes)
Hotel Wyndham SLC
(801)531-7500...mention Ski Days for packages
For party passes:
www.willandgarrett.com
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*Gay Network Series*
-Admission Fee Benefits Body Positive-
(First & Third Tuesdays of the Month, 6-9PM, $10.)
Get to know people and help a worthy cause at the same time.
@xl
357 West 16th Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Avenues.)
(212)977-6498
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-Admission Fee Benefits Body Positive-
(First & Third Tuesdays of the Month, 6-9PM, $10.)
Get to know people and help a worthy cause at the same time.
@xl
357 West 16th Street
(Bet. 8th & 9th Avenues.)
(212)977-6498
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State Sen. Tom Duane wants to see a more efficient system for people to access HIV/AIDS services in the Empire State.
State Sen. Tom Duane, a gay Manhattan Democrat, is sponsoring legislation that would create a state Division of AIDS Services aimed at streamlining HIV/AIDS-related services.
Duane and Brooklyn Assemblymember Roger Green, flanked by AIDS advocates, announced the bill?s introduction during a Feb. 9 press conference in New York City.
According to Duane, a state Division of AIDS Services would provide New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS easier access to benefits and services, as well as provide intensive case management to address individual needs.
It would assist in such areas as transitional and permanent housing, Medicaid, long-term care, home care, food stamps, rent subsidies, financial benefits and child care.
Currently, New York state provides AIDS services by funding city- and community-based programs.
"It is outrageous that many New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS have no idea what benefits and services are available to them," said Duane. "DAS will provide one stop access to these services and will enhance the quality of life for countless New Yorkers."
Green, the Assembly sponsor, said that a state Division of AIDS Services would "ensure quality and timely service delivery" to affected communities throughout New York.
The bill is S.6035/A.9678.
NYBlade, Feb. 15, By INGA SORENSEN
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*Act-Up*
Mondays, 7:30PM
AIDS coalition to Unleash Power general meeting.
(212)966-4873..for information
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State Sen. Tom Duane, a gay Manhattan Democrat, is sponsoring legislation that would create a state Division of AIDS Services aimed at streamlining HIV/AIDS-related services.
Duane and Brooklyn Assemblymember Roger Green, flanked by AIDS advocates, announced the bill?s introduction during a Feb. 9 press conference in New York City.
According to Duane, a state Division of AIDS Services would provide New Yorkers with HIV/AIDS easier access to benefits and services, as well as provide intensive case management to address individual needs.
It would assist in such areas as transitional and permanent housing, Medicaid, long-term care, home care, food stamps, rent subsidies, financial benefits and child care.
Currently, New York state provides AIDS services by funding city- and community-based programs.
"It is outrageous that many New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS have no idea what benefits and services are available to them," said Duane. "DAS will provide one stop access to these services and will enhance the quality of life for countless New Yorkers."
Green, the Assembly sponsor, said that a state Division of AIDS Services would "ensure quality and timely service delivery" to affected communities throughout New York.
The bill is S.6035/A.9678.
NYBlade, Feb. 15, By INGA SORENSEN
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*Act-Up*
Mondays, 7:30PM
AIDS coalition to Unleash Power general meeting.
(212)966-4873..for information
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(Friday February 22, Slidng Scale Donations..
$5-$25, 8PM, raffle for Babes In Toyland goodies.)
- Benefit to help PWA's w/affordable Housing-
All femle line-up including the band "Company", folk rock's Tunisia Thompson, and singer Maritime.
@Meow Mix
269 East Houston Street
(at Suffolk Street)
(212)254-0688
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*Zookeeper*
(Friday February 22, 7-9PM, Free.)
SoulFood one of GMHC's outreach groups is sponsoring this performance of "Zookeeper" by Juan Shamsul Alam, which explores the impact of AIDS on the Puerto Rican community.
@GMHC
119 West 24th Street
(Bet. Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)254-0688
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$5-$25, 8PM, raffle for Babes In Toyland goodies.)
- Benefit to help PWA's w/affordable Housing-
All femle line-up including the band "Company", folk rock's Tunisia Thompson, and singer Maritime.
@Meow Mix
269 East Houston Street
(at Suffolk Street)
(212)254-0688
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*Zookeeper*
(Friday February 22, 7-9PM, Free.)
SoulFood one of GMHC's outreach groups is sponsoring this performance of "Zookeeper" by Juan Shamsul Alam, which explores the impact of AIDS on the Puerto Rican community.
@GMHC
119 West 24th Street
(Bet. Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)254-0688
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*Trans +*
TransPositive is a 10 week drop-in support group for HIV+ trans-identified persons.
A collaborative effort of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and The LGBY Community Center.
(212)271-7223..Ray Carannante, MSW @ Callen-Lorde
(212)620-7310..Carrie Davis, Counselor, Gender Identity Project.
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*Toward the Harbor of the New World*
(Thursday February 28, 10:30AM-Noon.)
Panel discussion examines, "critical issues of race identity, gender identity and sexuality that is impacting African Americans in the HIV & AIDS pandemic.
@Gay Men's Health Crisis
119 West 24th Street
(Bet. Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)367-1016
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TransPositive is a 10 week drop-in support group for HIV+ trans-identified persons.
A collaborative effort of Callen-Lorde Community Health Center and The LGBY Community Center.
(212)271-7223..Ray Carannante, MSW @ Callen-Lorde
(212)620-7310..Carrie Davis, Counselor, Gender Identity Project.
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*Toward the Harbor of the New World*
(Thursday February 28, 10:30AM-Noon.)
Panel discussion examines, "critical issues of race identity, gender identity and sexuality that is impacting African Americans in the HIV & AIDS pandemic.
@Gay Men's Health Crisis
119 West 24th Street
(Bet. Sixth & Seventh Avenues)
(212)367-1016
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