#Visual AIDS

Are you a woman/femme living with HIV who would like to receive a handmade card on Valentine’s Day?

1st International AIDS Conference held in Atlanta; National Transgender HIV Testing Day; The Normal Heart premieres at The Public Theater...

ACT UP is formed; National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; Elizabeth Taylor dies...

FDA approves an oral HIV test; Angels in America premieres on HBO; Day With(out) Art is launched by Visual AIDS...

Visual AIDS launches the Artists+ Registry online; Pedro Zamora dies; the National AIDS Memorial Grove opens in San Francisco...

Art AIDS America opens at the Tacoma Art Museum; National Latino AIDS Awareness Day; Kia Labeija’s mother, Kwan Bennett, dies...

National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; President Reagan first publicly mentions AIDS; Activists put a condom over Jesse Helms’s house....

The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation is created; Mary Fisher gives speech at the Republican National Convention; Bobby Campbell dies...

FDA approves the use of Truvada for PrEP; David Wojnarowicz dies; the world’s first AIDS Walk is held in Los Angeles...

The Red Ribbon makes its debut at the Tony Awards; HIV Long-term Survivors Day; The AIDS Quilt is first displayed...

First AIDS Candelight March held in San Francisco and New York; HIV Vaccine Awareness Day; Vito Russo gives “Why We Fight” speech...

The formation of GMHC; “Rent” opens at the New York Theater Workshop; John Hanning is diagnosed with HIV...

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day; ’We Were Here’ premieres in San Francisco; Liberace dies of AIDS-related complications...

An HIV-positive gay man who performed as Patina du Prey, Hunter Reynolds was a member of ACT UP. Here’s his latest art book.

Read more about Kia LaBeija and other HIV art figures.

A new exhibition and book showcase 165 AIDS posters from the University of Rochester’s vast online collection. [SLIDESHOW]