GMHC was started 1982 rponse to ernment actn agast a disease that was ravagg the gay and bisexual muni at the time.
Contents:
- GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
- ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
- LARRY KRAMER → GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
* the gay men's health crisis *
Our HistoryIn 1981, eighty men gathered wrer Larry Kramer’s apartment to addrs the “gay ncer” and to raise money for rearch. This rmal meetg provid the foundatn of what would soon bee Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC).
ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
Gay and bisexual men are part of a very diverse muny. This webse provis an overview of the different health and other issu faced by gay and bisexual and bisexual men are part of a very diverse muny.
LARRY KRAMER → GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS
This webse provis an overview of the different health and other issu faced by gay and bisexual men. On June 5, 1981, the Uned Stat Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) issued s first warng about a relatively rare form of pnmonia among a small group of young gay men Los Angel, which was later termed to be AIDS-related. Eighty men gather wrer Larry Kramer’s apartment to addrs the “gay ncer” and to raise money for rearch.
This rmal meetg provis the foundatn of what will soon bee Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC). GMHC lnc the “Beyond 200 Sexual Health Survey” New York Cy, the largt survey of gay and bisexual men sce the begng of the study published Newsday reports an timated 69, 000 people New York State have HIV but rema unaware of . When ACT UP began, s founrs uld not have gused how high the group would soar; they would have been even more surprised by the particular nflicts that brought down to the time ACT UP was born, 1987, tens of thoands of Amerins—mostly gay men—had died of AIDS, and more were dyg every day, even as the ernment remaed largely different.
Early that March, Larry Kramer, the wrer and activist who had helped found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, livered a speech at New York’s Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center, on Wt Thirteenth Street. It also took on surance practic like the excln of sgle men who lived predomantly gay neighborhoods.