Announcements

Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me event, on YouTube

Watch the conversation between Vincent Chevalier, Ian Bradley-Perrin, Avram Finkelstein and John Weir, moderated by Patrick "Pato" Hebert → Read More

Photos from Play Smart Condom Pack Making Nights

Gathering to Play Smart Together with Ella, Zachary, and Timothy! → Read More

"Luck and the Need for Queer Bookstores,” an essay in Future Perfect

BGSQD publishes a book with essays, poems, and images from Visual AIDS friends and contributors. → Read More

Acting Up in Public—HIV/AIDS Documentation and the Stakes of Representation, part 2 of 3

“I am here to tell you that more trials should be available for me and the rest of the poor. I have a home now, but about ten months ago I was still homeless.”--Phyllis Sharpe, United in Anger. → Read More

Pie in the Face: the perils and payoffs of digitizing the archives

"The audience applauded wildly, their red ribbons crushed in the process." → Read More

On Organizing, and Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me

In creating the public event that takes it's name from the poster, Visual AIDS saw an opportunity to use the “Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me” poster and the response as a jumping off point for the larger conversation about activism now. → Read More

Acting Up in Public—HIV/AIDS Documentation and the Stakes of Representation, part 1 of 3

"We can imagine HIV/AIDS activism to be like a collection of postcards sent from hell to the realm of possibility." - A. Anthony → Read More

Play Smart Together - with Ricardo Gamboa

"A gaping tear in the time-space continuum situated in urban Central America would seem to have nothing to do with sex-positive, homoerotic trading cards promoting HIV prevention & social awareness around stigmas of HIV/AIDS. But what else has queerness been for cosmopolitan gays of the modern metropolis besides a dip into a dark hole for another kind of pleasure or wormhole." → Read More

Play Smart Together - with Jim Eigo

"But today, peer-to-peer sex outreach is an endangered species. So much guy-on-guy sex originates in a phone app and gets negotiated in the ether, often with mutual assurances that each is “clean”. Such terminology is incomprehensible to an aging sexual reprobate like me. I am far from clean. Often I am dirty." → Read More

Play Smart Together - with Dee Borrego

"HIV Criminalization laws become a self-defeating, and even dangerous, proposition to the health of the community it is intended to be protecting." → Read More