Taylor, who died in March, founded the amFAR HIV and AIDS charity and John said she would remain the charity event’s “guiding star”. The star-studded amFAR dinner, which was held last night in Cannes in the south of France, attracted celebrities such as Sean Penn, Kanye West and Karl Lagerfeld. Taylor set up amFAR after [...]

On Sunday 15 May, the Axel Hotel Berlin welcomes the twenty-eighth edition of the AIDS Candlelight Memorial. This is an special open event, whom we invite you to participate. The theme of this year is “Remembering Lives”  and the point is to remember how HIV has impacted the lives of so many of us and [...]

Gayxample, the new gay-themed series that premiered on Saturday March 12th online through the website: www.gayxample.net with its first chapter “The homophobic nephew.” A potential audience of over 1,800 million people have the opportunity to see on-line each of the chapters in this new series that stands as a showcase for gay Barcelona to the [...]

New Zealand has seen an alarming number of gay and bisexual men diagnosed with HIV last year. According to the AIDS Epidemiology Group at the University of Otago, 90 of the 149 new infections diagnosed last year were found in men who have sex with men. HIV campaigners said that rates of the disease in [...]

The first data from new systems of detecting recent HIV infection in the UK have shown that among those diagnosed, one in six gay men were infected in the past few months, whereas only one in 16 heterosexuals were. Sam Lattimore of the Health Protection Agency presented the results to the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference [...]

Gay and bisexual men didn’t have riskier sex or suffer serious side effects while using Gilead Sciences Inc.’s Viread in a study of whether taking pills to prevent HIV infection would loosen inhibitions or harm health. Gay and bisexual men who took a daily pill — either Viread or a placebo — were no more likely [...]

The reputation of Tory perception on homosexuality must be nearing caricature territory. First the private admission by the shadow home secretary that B&B owners should be able to exclude gay couple from their services on the grounds of religious belief. Then came the less-than-flattering Gay Times interview with David Cameron. However, the latest member of [...]

By Ravinia Hayes-Cozier, Director of Government Relations and Public Policy While we applaud the President’s request to increase HIV/AIDS funding by $40 million (1.7%) in the FY2011 budget, I am concerned that this number falls short after the 8 years of flat-funding under the previous Administration. Sometimes we count our blessings no matter how small [...]