The preservation of AIDS history in the Champaign-Urbana area nearly disappeared years ago after its archivist died in 2022. Now, Daniel Rodriguez is committed to finishing what was started. As a ...

What is the history of the AIDS epidemic, when did treatment become widely available, and what are the current goals for ending this epidemic? In 2023, an estimated 39.9 million people around the ...

When 20-year-old UF anthropology major Fiona Garber and a group of their peers were tasked with a research project as a part of UF’s Alexander Grass Scholars Program, they chose to delve into the ...

To understand the AIDS crisis that started 40 years ago, we need to listen to those who experienced it. There’s an entire generation of queer men missing from the present-day frame, and many of those ...

The African American AIDS Activism Oral History Project preserves the stories of African American AIDS activists, as told through videotaped interviews. So far, I have collected oral histories from ...

Forty years ago this month, the CDC reported on patients with HIV/AIDS in the United States for the very first time. In the years since, LGBTQIA+ Americans have been fighting for treatment and ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for free here. Recently, I posted a story on Instagram about Sarah Schulman’s ...

This series spans the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the absence of government intervention and the organizers that continue to rally against the virus. From filmmakers Sandy Woodson and Emily ...

October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the ...