AIDS

When Your Pet is Your Lifeline

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My HIV condition progressed to full-blown AIDS, along with anxiety and depression. Adopting my dog forced me to focus on living.

‘Don’t Forget This Happened’

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A COVID-era plea on World AIDS Day

In the Face of Death, We Laughed

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As AIDS ravaged my friend's body, levity carried us through the end.

‘My Death Stories Are My Birth Stories’

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That precious, precarious, otherworldly state of giving birth reminded me of something else: grief.

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The Long Arc of My Mentor’s Impact

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Jeff Schmalz was my advocate in the newsroom — and the first openly gay man I knew. Even years after his death, his influence on my life takes on new forms.

Are You My Papi?

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As a young man, I lost my father to AIDS-related illness. Now I search for echoes of him in the men I choose to love.

My First Real World AIDS Day

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My father died of AIDS 22 years ago. For more than two decades, I avoided World AIDS Day. This year, I'm owning my history. Here's why.

What I Mourn When I Mourn Robin Williams

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What Gen Xers mourn when we mourn Robin Williams.

Here’s ‘How Americans Die’

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With a series of absorbing motion graphics, Bloomberg View explores the nation's mortality stats over a generation.

Remembering Parents Lost to AIDS

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Hundreds of thousands have died of AIDS in this country. Now, two women are building a community of those who lost parents to the disease.