January 14th, 2025 Happy New Year! 2015 is already off to an exciting start for The Graying of AIDS: we’re happy to announce a recent partnership with national pharmacy chain Walgreens on their new Well Beyond HIV campaign, which highlights “people aging well beyond their HIV diagnosis” to “help inspire dialogue, eradicate stigmas and amplify […]
July 8th, 2014 As we mentioned in our last blog post, earlier this year The Graying of AIDS worked closely with New York City-based AIDS research, education, and advocacy organization ACRIA to create an intimate portrait series of older adults – alone and with “partners” – on “Age is Not a Condom,” an NYC HIV/AIDS and
Our Ground-breaking Portrait Series for NYC’s “Age is Not a Condom” Campaign Here at The Graying of AIDS we think it’s a problem that we rarely see older adult intimacy in our media – it suggests that older adults aren’t sexual, or that their bodies should be hidden; on the rare occasion that we DO
February 13th, 2014 Casting Call for NYC Bus Shelter Campaign The Graying of AIDS is excited to be working in collaboration with ACRIA on a new NYC-based HIV and aging awareness bus shelter campaign. While previous awareness campaigns have often used professional models or pictured individual older adults,
The last few months have brought some exciting new developments that suggest a growing awareness of the challenges affecting older adults living with HIV/AIDS, and new efforts being made to address some of those challenges. In honor of this 25th annual World AIDS Day (December 1), we thought we’d take a moment to share some of
This summer New York City is offering a variety of opportunities to gain perspective on the history of AIDS and learn more about where things stand today. In addition to exhibits at the La Mama Galleria (closing this weekend) and The New York Historical Society (thru September 15), a number of events are highlighting
While the theme for World AIDS Day (December 1st) was “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS-related deaths,” it seems that many in the mainstream media are focusing on the idea of an “AIDS-free Generation.” For this reason, perhaps it’s not surprising that there wasn’t more about older adults living with
In the Global Village of the XIX International AIDS Conference – held in Washington, DC, from July 22-27, 2012 – The Graying of AIDS team (Katja Heinemann, Naomi Schegloff, and Viviana Peretti) worked with adults age 50+ living with HIV/AIDS from around the world to create A Graying Pandemic, a series of photographic portraits and
As Our Participatory Installation at AIDS2012 Closes, You Can Still Visit Our On-line Exhibition Over the roughly five days that the Global Village at the XIX International AIDS Conference was open, The Graying of AIDS team (Katja Heinemann, Naomi Schegloff, and Viviana Peretti) worked with adults age 50+ from around the world who openly self-identify as
A Participatory Installation at the XIX International AIDS Conference Washington, DC, July 22 – 27th http://agrayingpandemic.tumblr.com FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Opening Hours: Sunday July 22: 5pm-9:30pm Mon-Thurs July 23-26: 8:30am-8:30pm Friday July 27: 8:30am-12pm While The Graying
From March 28th – April 1, over 3,000 attendees and presenters swarmed Washington DC’s Marriott Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham hotels for Aging in America, the 2012 annual conference of the American Society on Aging (ASA). With hot-button issues like the future of the Affordable Care Act and key entitlement programs on the table and
A Residency on Aging, Documentaries, and Audience Engagement (The second of three posts on our March adventures) In the 2+ years since The Graying of AIDS received support from the Open Society Foundations to create our multiplatform outreach and education campaign, we have met a remarkable array of people from across disciplines who are concerned
