January 14th, 2015
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” …
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” …
June 30th, 2014
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 see older bodies in a sexual context, the images are often disrespectful or comical. We have long wanted to counteract this ageism …
February 13th, 2014
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, …
December 3rd, 2013
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 …
June 26th, 2013
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 …
December 6th, 2012
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.” …
September 28th, 2012
In the Global Village of the XIX International AIDS Conference – held in Washington, DC, from July 22-27, 2012 – The Graying of AIDS team worked with adults age 50+ living with HIV/AIDS from around the world to create A Graying Pandemic,…
July 31st, 2012
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 worked with adults age 50+ from around the world …
July 20th, 2012
A Participatory Installation at the XIX International AIDS Conference
Washington, DC, July 22 – 27th…
July 19th, 2012
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). …
April 27th, 2012
A Residency on Aging, Documentaries, and Audience Engagement
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 …
April 26th, 2012
March Was a Whirlwind: The Graying of AIDS on the Road. March was an inspiring, information-and-opportunity-packed month for The Graying of AIDS. First Naomi was invited to participate in a panel at Baltimore’sGraying of HIV: An Aging and Growing Population …
February 27th, 2012
Since Katja first began her work on The Graying of AIDS in 2006, we have lost a number of the extraordinary people profiled in our project to a variety of AIDS- and/or aging-related illnesses. We are deeply saddened to report the recent passing of two more of our much-beloved participants: Sue Saunders (age 78) and Richard Kearns (age 60)….
February 17th, 2012
It’s an exciting time for The Graying of AIDS, with two wonderful new developments in the evolution of our project involving two exemplary independent documentary film organizations: Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures….
December 14th, 2011
The Graying of AIDS is not just a documentary project about HIV/AIDS, but about aging with HIV/AIDS. As it turns out, ours is one of many documentary projects in recent years that are taking a closer look at various aspects of aging in America today….
December 7th, 2011
On World AIDS Day we soft-launched a new blog on our website, “Artists Responding to Aging and to HIV/AIDS,” or “ARTAHA.” As we explain in some detail in our introduction to the blog, we have been inviting older adults living with HIV as well as people of all ages from the arts, HIV/AIDS, and aging services and research communities …
December 2nd, 2011
“People just don’t know. They think it’s gone. The only way it will ever go away is by educating, people speaking out, making it a media noise. And I think that’s the only cure.” –Anna Fowlkes, age 64, Baltimore, MD. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic, and yesterday was World AIDS Day…
November 21st, 2011
“Being transgendered is such a singular experience, how can you adequately explain it to someone who isn’t transgendered? There is no common frame of reference. I can go on and on talking about the years of wandering alone in the darkness, searching, lost and confused and the blissful sense of serenity and peace of mind that I feel at this instant.”
–Ashley, quoted from My Right Self…
November 2nd, 2011
As we continue to think about creative new ways to introduce the issues raised in The Graying of AIDS to diverse audiences, we thought we’d reflect back on some of the highlights of our experience this September as participants in the Governors Island Art Fair….
In recognition of the fourth annual National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day on September 18th, The Graying of AIDS teamed up with the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging to highlight some of the extraordinary LGBT-identified older adults who have…
The Graying of AIDS is thrilled to present our work as part of the fourth annual Governors Island Art Fair, which opened Labor Day weekend and will continue every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday through September 25, 2011. The event is…
While HIV/AIDS in the US generally receives little media attention these days, there has been a recent surge in coverage in recognition of the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. On June 5, 1981, the CDC’s MMWR Weekly published a…
People who know about Fred Hersch tend to know about the pianist’s evocative, eloquent compositions and improvisations, which regularly blur the lines between jazz and other musical genres. They may know that the 55 year-old musician has been HIV-positive since…
According to a June 2010 “Fact Sheet” by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, 8% of all state residents living with HIV at the end of 2008 were aged 60 or older. Of the 2,586 new diagnoses in…
A new report out of the US Department of Health and Human Services Office highlights how few seniors are currently accessing critical preventative health services, with minority seniors even less likely to receive these services. Findings indicate that if seniors…
From thestar.com, the on-line face of The Toronto Star, comes word that many of the same challenges confronting long-term and nursing care providers in the U.S. are taxing providers further north, and many Canadians aging with the virus are struggling…
Jane E. Brody’s piece for this week’s Health Section of The New York Times — “Tackling Care as Chronic Ailments Pile Up” – speaks directly to two of the central concerns of The Graying of AIDS: the need for better…
GMHC’s Sean Cahill brought the aging of the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the attention of a much wider audience with his recent piece in the Huffington Post. In the piece, entitled “The Long and Winding Road: Growing Older with HIV,” Cahill…
Just in time for Valentine’s Day: the federal powers-that-be have started drawing their lines in the sand for fiscal year 2012, and HIV/AIDS advocates, researchers, and providers have reason to be hopeful, although House Republicans are likely to put up…
Congratulations to Graying of AIDS advisory panel member Ed Shaw, whose lengthy career as an HIV/AIDS educator and activist was recently highlighted in a piece for AARP Bulletin (photograph by our own Katja Heinemann). The piece highlights Shaw’s journey living…
[field name=video] In honor of World AIDS Day (12/1/10), the website for the AARP Bulletin highlighted the story of Dr. Robert Franke and his family. The multimedia piece (created by Graying of AIDS Project Director Katja Heinemann) and accompanying article…
The Graying of AIDS was honored to join a group of activists, providers, researchers, and government agency representatives for a meeting on HIV and aging convened by the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) on October 27, 2010….
In our work to promote sensitivity, dialog and collaboration around the day-to-day realities of older adults aging with HIV, The Graying of AIDS aims to situate personal audio/visual portraits within the larger context of HIV/AIDS in this country. To do…
