world aids day
GRITtv: The F Word: Banning Art, Forgetting the Artists
This Wednesday was World AIDS day, but instead of honoring the lives lost to the disease, Republicans are attacking art that reflects on it. They're targeting a show at the National Portrait Gallery called "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." The gallery has pulled a video by David Wojnarowicz called "Fire In My Belly." John Boehner and the Catholic League complained that the video's use of Catholic imagery was an attack on their religion. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS-related complications in 1992, but I asked his old friend Philip Yenawine for some thoughts. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: World AIDS Day: Access Saves Lives
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.4 million people living with HIV, including 2.1 million children. During 2008, some 2.7 million people became newly infected with the virus and an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. Avert.org is raising consciousness this World AIDS Day for the need for universal access to lifesaving HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and care. Check out the video, with music from SDIA. If you download their song, "Going All The Way" from iTunes, a portion of the proceeds will go to Avert.
