On a crisp 41-degree morning, more than a hundred people gathered beneath the AIDS Memorial in Greenwich Village to mark World AIDS Day, observed every Dec. 1 since 1988. The memorial — an 18-foot white steel canopy built in 2016…
Amy Grant Wants to Continue Bono’s PEPFAR Legacy
The queen of Christian pop is weighing in on proposed cuts to the successful HIV/AIDS program the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity
We are so accustomed to seeing every public argument as a cage fight that it can be genuinely surprising to see a mind changing in the course of a conversation. On The Joe Rogan Experience last week, songwriter Bono laid out for Rogan…
‘The due penalty of their error’
I have often sat with my older LGBTQ friends and heard their stories of terror and loss during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s. This disease spread throughout the LGBTQ community like wildfire, while many leaders in both…
Suspending PEPFAR: An emergency of our own making
I recently watched a war movie in which the threat of “friendly fire” hung over soldiers on the front lines. Those behind the lines would lob shells that took out people on their side, decimating and demoralizing the troops.