AIDS

The city of Berkeley partnered with Steamworks, a bathhouse in Berkeley that primarily serves gay men, to provide monkeypox vaccines to the public.

Paola Bacchetta, a gender and women’s studies professor, remembers what it was like to be the only out lesbian of color faculty on campus when she first started teaching at UC Berkeley in 2003.

In an effort to eliminate AIDS in East Africa, a consortium involving UC Berkeley researchers received a $23 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a research program.

Campus faculty members have a lot of freedom in deciding what to research, but there are mechanisms in place to promote quality science.

With a functioning public health system that advocates for early testing and treating, STDs are 100% preventable, but right now our public health system is failing. 

On June 5, thousands of cyclists rode in the AIDS/LifeCycle fundraiser. That same day, federal officials dealt a blow to HIV/AIDS researchers at UCSF.

As lights went up on “The Boy From Oz” at the Gateway Theater on Oct. 27, the musical’s star Justin Genna leaped and pirouetted toward the front of the stage to applause before standing stone-still and performing a somewhat tuneless song about the many lives of Peter Allen.

“The Great Believers” follows two stories, one in Chicago at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the other in 2015 Paris.

Poetry, at its best, can resonate deeply and at times even challenge deep-seated paradigms we hold about the world around us.

With the release of nominations on May 1, Tony Kushner’s 1991 play “Angels in America” became the the most Tony Award-nominated play in Broadway history.