The BRAKING AIDS™ Ride brings together advocates, allies, and people living with HIV/AIDS to channel their power into a civil rights march on two wheels. That synergy caught Clay Williams’ eye. Clay, who is turning 50 this year, was diagnosed with HIV in 1991, and he never thought that he would …
I have lived in New York for most of my life, and the burden of not being the gender I wanted to be was increasingly hard to bear, and so I came out and transitioned to living as a woman. The only dark spot was when a psychiatrist told me that …
Gerry Brown wasn’t always so comfortable talking about living with AIDS. In fact, during the course of our conversation one Monday afternoon in April, he relayed that during some of his darkest days in the late 90s, his only daily activities involved taking AZT and antidepressants, forgoing social contact out of …
My name is Marcie Brianna Christian-Chase. I am 49 year-old parent and grandparent, and I am a woman of cis-gender experience. I am of Afro-Caribbean Latina heritage, and I am currently studying to become a Surgical Technician. I have been fighting for the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) since it came …
A native of Beaumont, TX, Kiara has been one of the key organizers with Housing Works to pass GENDA, and has traveled to Albany with Housing Works to speak with legislators about the need for GENDA. Kiara began her transition in 1994, and became HIV-positive in 1995 from being injected with …
In the event’s eight-year history, there has never been a Design on Dime quite like the one you’ll see this year. This year’s Design on a Dime fundraiser will not only feature a record 62 stunning individually designed rooms, but is also being Chaired for the first time by an all-star …
Currently I am Housing Works’ harm reduction counselor, but I’ve been a civil rights advocate for years. I’m originally from Virginia, and my advocacy began in the late 60s and 70s in the civil rights movement. I see almost all issues as a question of civil rights because we are all …
The BRAKING AIDS™ Ride brings together advocates, allies, and people living with HIV/AIDS to channel their power into a civil rights march on two wheels. That synergy caught Clay Williams’ eye. Clay, who is turning 50 this year, was diagnosed with HIV in 1991, and he never thought that he would …
I have lived in New York for most of my life, and the burden of not being the gender I wanted to be was increasingly hard to bear, and so I came out and transitioned to living as a woman. The only dark spot was when a psychiatrist told me that …
Gerry Brown wasn’t always so comfortable talking about living with AIDS. In fact, during the course of our conversation one Monday afternoon in April, he relayed that during some of his darkest days in the late 90s, his only daily activities involved taking AZT and antidepressants, forgoing social contact out of …
My name is Marcie Brianna Christian-Chase. I am 49 year-old parent and grandparent, and I am a woman of cis-gender experience. I am of Afro-Caribbean Latina heritage, and I am currently studying to become a Surgical Technician. I have been fighting for the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) since it came …
A native of Beaumont, TX, Kiara has been one of the key organizers with Housing Works to pass GENDA, and has traveled to Albany with Housing Works to speak with legislators about the need for GENDA. Kiara began her transition in 1994, and became HIV-positive in 1995 from being injected with …
In the event’s eight-year history, there has never been a Design on Dime quite like the one you’ll see this year. This year’s Design on a Dime fundraiser will not only feature a record 62 stunning individually designed rooms, but is also being Chaired for the first time by an all-star …
Currently I am Housing Works’ harm reduction counselor, but I’ve been a civil rights advocate for years. I’m originally from Virginia, and my advocacy began in the late 60s and 70s in the civil rights movement. I see almost all issues as a question of civil rights because we are all …
