World AIDS Day/Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week 2025

Established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1988, World AIDS Day aims to raise awareness of the ongoing AIDS crisis and the spread of HIV. Indigenous AIDS Awareness Week is a dedicated time to honour the leadership, strength, and lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples affected by or living with HIV and AIDS.

Updated November 24, 2025
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It was vulgar & it was beautiful : how AIDS activists used art to fight a pandemic
Lowery, Jack (Writer)
Paper Book
An "unsparing account" (NPR) of art collective Gran Fury, which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities...
All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
Burks, Ruth Coker
Paper Book
A gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth Coker Burks, a young single mother in Hot Springs, Arkansas, who finds herself driven to the forefront of the AIDS crisis, and becoming a pivotal activist in America's fight against AIDS. In 1986, 26-year old...
Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Schulman, Sarah
Paper Book
Named one of the Best Books of the 21st Century by Kirkus. Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary LGBTQ Nonfiction Award and the 2022 NLGJA Excellence in Book Writing Award. A 2021 New York Times Book Review Notable Book. One of NPR, New...
Never silent : ACT UP and my life in activism
Staley, Peter
Paper Book
"Never Silent is a gorgeous book . . . Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world." --Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Angels in America ...
How to survive a plague : the inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS
France, David
Paper Book
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic--from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague. A riveting, powerful telling of the story of the...
Stitch by stitch : Cleve Jones and the AIDS memorial quilt
Sanders, Rob
Paper Book
From the blanket that his great-grandmother made for him as a boy, to the friends he gathered together in San Francisco as a young man, to the idea for a monument sewn of fabric and thread, Cleve Jones' extraordinary life seems to have been stitched together bit by bit, piece by piece. ...

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