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Beyoncé — dropped a new trailer for her much-hyped concert film “Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé.” “To close my eyes and travel through realms of space and time, reality holds no power or control of my state of mind on my voyage to find a source to charge my inner being,” she intones over a moody montage of scenes from her epic 2023 tour at the beginning of the film’s third trailer.“Welcome to the Renaissance,” a choir of Beyoncé’s sings, as if you didn’t already know that said tour was the subject of this concert film.The film is set to be released on December 1, World AIDS Day, in honor of Beyoncé’s late Uncle Jonny — her inspiration for “Renaissance,” who died from AIDS-related complications early in her career.Then, some stadium stage-slaying and private family feels find Beyoncé reflecting on just how fierce she has run the world — as well as the household.“In this world that is very male-dominated, I’ve had to be really tough to balance motherhood and being on the stage … It just reminds me of who I really am.”Finally, after a nod to the “Renaissance” visuals that the fans have been clamoring for since the album dropped in July 2022 — “You are the visuals, baby,” she teases — Beyoncé makes it clear that the revolution has just begun, y’all.“It’s a new birth.

Look Into It with Eddie Bravo podcast in February, the NFL quarterback suggested that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president of the United States, and the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had played a key role in the creating AIDS epidemic, which served as the “blueprint” for the COVID-19 pandemic.Video clips of the interview largely went unreported and didn’t create much controversy until they were re-shared and widely circulated on social media this week.

I Love Lucy was kicking off its first season, super glue had just been invented, and there were 140,000 syphilis cases reported across the country.”By 2000, however, decades of public health advocacy and medical advancements, such as the use of antibiotics in early treatment, had cut down cases to just 32,000 per year.So, what happened? Why are the numbers worse now than they were 24 years ago?“In the United States, syphilis was close to elimination in the 1990s, so we know it’s possible to reverse this epidemic,” Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, stated.The CDC recently released its STI surveillance report for 2022, the most recent verified data set available.

“Bedtime Story” that only Madonna could tell.In the true tradition of her notoriously late concert starts, the Queen of Pop kept her loyal subjects waiting until almost 11 p.m. before taking the stage to kick off the US leg of her “Celebration Tour” at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Wednesday night. Due to the tour’s postponement — after a serious bacterial infection sent Madonna to the ICU in June — local fans already had to wait four months since the original New York dates in August were rescheduled.So what’s another couple of hours?Although the tickets had a scheduled 8:30 p.m.

self-proclaimed “Christocrat” with a history of launching attacks against the LGBTQ community, recently gave a sermon at Calvary Bible Church in Wichita, Kansas, in which he promoted his new book, America in the Balance: American Dream vs. Woke Nightmare.“When the homosexual comes out of the closet and he is bragging about his activities, demanding not only acceptance, but endorsement, that is a nation that God is taking his hand off of,” Scarborough said.

Only 55% Of Latinos have been tested for HIV. HIV testing is the only way to know someone is HIV positive. There is no look, there is no one symptom that tells us if someone is HIV positive. Photo: iStock.

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, the latest in-depth documentary portrait by Sid & Judy director Stephen Kijak.Kijak’s films, both narrative and nonfiction, have delved into cultural icons from Judy Garland to Lynyrd Skynyrd to the Backstreet Boys. For this entertaining bio, he worked closely with author Mark Griffin — whose 2018 All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson is considered definitive — “to look at all the facets and angles, and the reflections and double meanings and mirror selves” presented by the bright, ex-Navy seaman from Winnetka, Illinois, who became Rock Hudson.“He was in some of the more indelible films of those classic eras,” Kijak says, ticking off Hudson’s famous Douglas Sirk-directed romances Magnificent Obsession and All That Heaven Allows.

One in Two (★★★★☆) — i.e., the audience at each performance will choose which of the cast’s three actors plays the role of Number One, leaving the roles of Two and Three up to chance — it might behoove a critic to see the show more than one or two times to experience multiple permutations of the production at Mosaic Theater.However, there wasn’t time for that before this review, and, more crucially, I’d say audiences can rest assured director Raymond O. Caldwell’s talented trio will deliver — regardless of who plays which part.

One of the chief things for which televangelist Pat Robertson will be remembered is his long record of anti-LGBTQ+ statements.

HIV organisations in Victoria have come together to identify key priorities for the next Parliament ahead of state elections in November 2022. Thorne Harbour Health, Living Positive Victoria, and Positive Women Victoria on Thursday released a document – HIV & AIDS Priorities – that has 38 recommended actions to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV and improve the state’s response to HIV. Simon Ruth, CEO, Thorne Harbour HealthThe first case of HIV/AIDS was reported in Australia more than 40 years ago. Since then there has been significant progress in HIV treatments, prevention and diagnosis.

Biotechnology company Moderna announced it has been working with the scientific not-for-profit partnership, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), to develop the HIV vaccine. Moderna said it has administered the first doses of the trial vaccine at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences at George Washington University. ANNOUNCEMENT

Today, December 1, marks World AIDS Day. A week ago today, on November 24, was the 30th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death, due to AIDS-related complications. The Queen lead singer was 45-years-old when he passed away.

New HIV infections recorded in Australia hit a historic low in 2020.

New HIV infections recorded in Australia hit a historic low in 2020.

Today, December 1, marks World AIDS Day. A week ago today, on November 24, was the 30th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death, due to AIDS-related complications. The Queen lead singer was 45-years-old when he passed away.

A new plan for a queer memorial and museum on Oxford Street is in development.Unlike other major cities such as Melbourne, whose Victorian Pride Centre opened in July this year, Sydney does not yet have a museum that celebrates the history, achievements, and lives of the city’s queer community.“This is a major omission that needs to be rectified,” asserted Qtopia Sydney, the group leading the charge to open a queer museum by WorldPride 2023.Among the possible locations for the museum include the

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th, will conclude in spring of 2023.“The mRNA platform makes it easy to develop vaccines against variants because it just requires an update to the coding sequences in the mRNA that code for the variant,” Rajesh Gandhi, an infectious disease expert who chairs the HIV Medicine Association, told Verywell Health.“Based on its success in protecting against COVID-19, I am hopeful that mRNA technology will revolutionize our ability to develop vaccines against other pathogens, like HIV and

Forty years after the first case of HIV was reported in the United States in 1981, a “cure” has remained elusive so far. Now, HIV/AIDS researchers across the world are keenly awaiting the results of two new trials that are scheduled to start in Melbourne.

Alvin Ailey, which opens in New York on Friday — greatness recognizes greatness when Cicely Tyson calls him “the Pied Piper of modern dance” at his 1988 Kennedy Center Honors induction.And for this master of movement — who founded the internationally renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company in New York in 1958 — it was all about bringing black people to the traditionally white world of dance.“I wanted it to be the kind of dancing that could be done for the man on the street, for the

Thomson Reuters Foundation, referring to the existing laws in 68 different countries that criminalize homosexuality.

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker (★★★★☆) that maverick ’80s multi-media artist David Wojnarowicz took inspiration for his work from his turbulent life.

Angels in America — Photo: amfARBroadway may be shut down but that doesn’t mean the curtains are closed for good. Those craving a taste of what the American stage has to offer in quarantine can find it on October 8th, with a free virtual screening of Angels In America streaming for free on Broadway.com’s YouTube channel.The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels in America is a sixty-minute collection of seven scenes from Tony Kushner‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama.

The protagonist, Stuart, is flawed but Sutton hopes readers will relate to him.“Stuart can be lazy and self-centred, but he is also thoughtful and kind. Basically, he’s well-meaning.”The novel starts with Stuart, who at 30 is at a crossroads in life.

2 min read A Facebook post that promises a $10 phone credit is causing havoc for the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF).

4 min read After two years of declining numbers of HIV cases in New Zealand, there was a slight increase in 2019, but many of these cases were first diagnosed overseas.

Larry Kramer has died at age 84. (Photo by Jean Carlomusto; courtesy Farrar Straus Giroux)

Elton John has led tributes to Larry Kramer, the playwright who raised theatregoers’ consciousness about Aids, who has died aged 84.

Larry Kramer, the pioneering New York AIDS activist who used pamphlets, novels, Broadway plays and ire to spread his lifesaving message, has died. He was 84.

Once again, LGBTQ people find ourselves sequestered in a parallel history, an alternate temporality unshared by the rest of the American public. Was the surgeon general not alive during the AIDS crisis? Were “most Americans” living on some other planet just 25 years ago? Axios reports the following:

The FDA has changed in policy on gay blood donations.

“He hit me up,” my friend said on FaceTime to create some semblance of intimacy while social distancing.

WeHo Council member John Duran is posting daily Facebook updates about the coronavirus crisis. (Photo via Facebook)

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Fighting For Our Lives is a new book by Nick Cook that looks at how the Australian LGBTIQ community fought AIDS and won.