Gay Men’s Health Crisis

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

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). 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.

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

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.

LARRY KRAMER → GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS

6 tra when he had a “revelatn” that he was not bisexual but gay. “Beg a practil person, ” Schulman tells , he searched the phone book and found somethg lled the Gay Swchboard.

There was, and he attend one meetg, then another, and for the next five years he led a gay youth Rso, another ACT UP stalwart, is bt known for “The Celluloid Closet, ” his 1981 book about homosexualy and homophobia film. ) As Rso told a crowd, he had AIDS, but that wasn’t what was killg him:If I’m dyg om anythg, I am dyg om homophobia. And, pecially, if I’m dyg om anythg, I’m dyg om the sensatnalism of newspapers and magaz and televisn shows, which are terted me as a human-tert story—only as long as I’m willg to be a helpls victim, but not if I’m fightg for my polics of AIDS—“gay-related immune ficiency, ” or GRID, was an early signatn, as if a medil ndn might have a sexual orientatn—was evably a nontatn wh homophobia.

Buckley, Jr., wrote, a syndited lumn, “Everyone tected wh AIDS should be tattooed the upper forearm, to protect mon-needle ers, and on the buttocks, to prevent the victimizatn of other homosexuals. Several years to a harrowg epimic, gay Amerins were told that an act of nsensual sex uld not only fect them wh a fatal disease; uld also, at the will of a state, send them to prison. As Fkelste told Schulman, one day he said, “What about Gay Silence Is Deafeng?