//www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/featured/prnthumbnew2/20091125/DC17586″ imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”> . The new Board Members are a highly diverse group of leaders with specialties in public policy, law, finance, government health programs, editorial, and business entrepreneurship. The Board also comes from a wide range of personal backgrounds including both heterosexual and gay Black men and…
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Community reacts to ban on blood donations from gay men
Danny Chaviano is a relatively normal guy. He loves pasta. He plays piano. He pays taxes. He’s your neighbor, your classmate, your average civil engineering student. He speaks of his calculus class with an air of slight disgust, and he thinks one of the weirdest things about himself is his utter dislike of steak. But…
Unfortunately, some black youth feel more at home in Boystown, but get chilly reception
//2.bp.blogspot.com/_fv3VPwtWBYM/SxRqQrhtWJI/AAAAAAAAGYI/T_4FRaGZiNU/s1600/50789969.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”> When Antonio Jones walks down Halsted Street in Boystown, he feels more at home here than he did in his old Garfield Park neighborhood, where he used to worry about thugs attacking him for being bisexual. But all is not bliss for Jones in Boystown…
An Unhappy 25th on World AIDS Day
Disease May Be Gone From Public Service Announcements, but Still a Lethal Killer Posted by Jeff McElhaney //adage.com/goodworks/post?article_id=140759#author”> //adage.com/goodworks/post?article_id=140759#author” style=”color: #990000; text-decoration: none;”>Jeff McElhaney So you’ve lived to see the ripe old age of 25, my old acquaintance. I strolled the aisles of a greeting-card store, searching for the perfectly worded tribute to mark this…
HOUSING WORKS PRESIDENT, STAFFERS ARRESTED ON WORLD AIDS DAY AT BLOOMBERG BREAKFAST
To expose the hypocrisy of Mayor Bloomberg’s Annual World AIDS Day Breakfast at Gracie Mansion, ten Housing Works’ protesters, including President and CEO Charles King, staged a sit-in at the entrance to Gracie Mansion today. All ten were a...
Thomas D’Angelo (1950-2009)
Thomas D’Angelo is one of the thousands of people whose name we read today, on World AIDS Day at City Hall Park. Tommy, as he was known to friends, was a longtime Housing Works staffer and the first person to win the Keith D. Cylar Activist Award...
Housing Works to Host Annual 24-hour World AIDS Day Vigil on December 1
On December 1, World AIDS Day, Housing Works will host its annual 24-hour vigil at the southern end of City Hall Park. Starting at 12:01 AM on December 1, hundreds of New Yorkers will brave the dark and the cold to read the names of those who have died...
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