Biographies
To raise to GA status
These are articles that should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status. Once they achieve GA-status, articles that have not already appeared on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section can be nominated; these are highlighted with , linking to the nomination page.
- Peter Allen (musician) (1944–1992) — Australian singer-songwriter, Liza Minnelli's first husband
- Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) — African-American tennis player who died of AIDS after a blood transfusion.
- Amanda Blake (1929–1989) — American actress
- Perry Ellis (1940–1986) — American fashion designer.
- Halston (1932–1990) — American fashion designer.
- Liberace (1919–1987) — American pianist.
- Keith Haring (1958–1990) — American artist.
- Rock Hudson (1925–1985) — one of the first “household names” to die of AIDS; good biography with good section about his illness and death, but little mention of how much the Reagans refused to help him gain treatment in Paris; see Buzzfeed
- Derek Jarman (1942–1994) — British filmmaker
- Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) — Soviet ballet dancer, defected in 1961
- Robert Reed (1932–1992) — Actor best known for playing the patriarch Mike in The Brady Bunch; died on bowel cancer with his HIV status listed as a contributing factor on his death certificate.
- Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) — German fine-art photographer living in London; no "Personal life" section and no mention of his own HIV status. See interview with Dazed.
- Pedro Zamora (1972–1994) — reality star on The Real World, the first out, HIV+ man to appear on mainstream television and the first ever same-sex commitment ceremony
Needing greater expansion, or work on a specific area
- Donald Acheson (1926–2010) — Chief Medical Officer for England, 1983–1991; biography doesn't mention his work on the Early AIDS Crisis at all
- Arthur J. Ammann (born 1936) — pediatric immunologist at UCSF and expert in infantile cytomegalovirus, who realised the US blood supply was contaminated with HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- John-Manuel Andriote (born 1958) — American journalist and author
- Jacqui Banaszynski (born 1952) — journalist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and now a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 3-part series "AIDS in the Heartland", humanising AIDS by profiling a rural couple, one of whom became the 125th Minnesotan to die of AIDS on July 25, 1987, at the age of 37. About the series; parts 1, 2, 3.
- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947) — Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
- Richard Berkowitz (born 1955) — New York sex worker, coauthor of How to Have Sex in an Epidemic; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), chief scientific officer at Gilead, involved in development of tenofovir disoproxil, Truvada and (unrelated to HIV) sofosbuvir and Tamiflu; see article
- George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) — US President during the early Crisis years. No mention of his approach to the AIDS Crisis (or lack thereof).
- Gia Carangi (1960–1986) — "world's first supermodel", one of the first famous women to die of AIDS (having contracted HIV through her IV drug addiction).
- Christopher Coe (1953–1994) — American novelist
- Emmanuelle Cosse (born 1974) — French politician, activist and former president of ACT UP-Paris
- Spencer Cox (activist) (1968–2012) — activist at ACT UP New York and Treatment Action Group who helped design the clinical trials that led to the introduction of protease inhibitors. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
- James W. Curran — head of the AIDS taskforce at the CDC during the early AIDS Crisis. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
- Martin Duberman (born 1930) — American historian, award-winning author of 2014 Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS
- Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984) — Canadian flight-attendant, long misidentified as "patient zero" of the North American AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Anthony Fauci (born 1940) — very little mention of his role in the early US AIDS Crisis and the controversies surrounding it. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his B-class biography.
- Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (born 1938) — Secretary of State for Health and Social Services during the start of the AIDS crisis in the UK, his Start-class biography makes little reference to the impact he had on the British government having a response, let alone its content. Was instrumental in UK govt sending a leaflet to every household in the UK in February 1987, the biggest AIDS-related public health campaign in the world at the time.
- Richard Feachem (born 1947) — HIV/AIDS researcher
- David France (writer) (born 1959) — American writer and filmmaker, Stonewall Book Award winner
- Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (born 1938) — UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, 1981–1987. His critical involvement in UK-wide public information campaigns during the Early Aids Crisis is not mentioned, with AIDS mentioned only in 2 sentences.
- Elizabeth Glaser (1947–1994) — AIDS campaigner after having contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in childbirth; her daughter Ariel (1981–1988) was infected through breastfeeding and her son Jake (born 1984) was infected in utero is an elite controller with the mutation CCR5-Δ32. Her Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has reached an estimated 20 million women worldwide, testing 17 million, and enrolling more the 2.2 million in its HIV care and support program: Plus
- Gregg Gonsalves (born 1963 or 1964) — cofounder of the Treatment Action Group and 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog.
- Vincent Hanley (1954–1987) — one of the first men to die of AIDS in Ireland. A little more information from Irish Queer Archive on Instagram.
- Mark Harrington (born 1958 or 1959) — cofounder of the Treatment Action Group and 1997 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog.
- Terry Higgins (1945–1982) — one of the first men to die of AIDS in the United Kingdom, Terence Higgins Trust, the UK's biggest service organisation, was founded in his memory
- Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser) (1942–1993) — assistant to Andy Warhol, boyfriend of Halston
- Ed Koch (1924–2013) — Mayor of New York 1978–1990, during the height of the AIDS Crisis; How to Survive a Plague offers the potential for expansion about this aspect of his mayoralty.
- Mathilde Krim (1926–2018) — early AIDS researcher and funder of Joseph Sonnabend; cofounder of amfAR; held a press conference to attempt to calm the argument between Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier over the discovery of HIV. Mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. Obits: NYT, Peter Staley, AIDS History project, TAG
- Linda Laubenstein (1947–1992) — coauthor of first paper linking AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma and physician of Gaëtan Dugas; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Lance Loud (1951–2001) — musician who came out on pioneering reality TV series An American Family in 1973
- Dennis Levy (born 1948) — CEO and founder of Black and Latino AIDS Coalition.
- James O. Mason (born 1930) — CDC director during the AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Rodger McFarlane (1955–2009) — first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Paul Monette (1945–1995) — American author, poet and activist based in West Hollywood
- Luc Montagnier (born 1932) — Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
- Judith Peabody (1930–2010) — New York socialite and philanthropist, active fundraiser for Gay Men's Health Crisis, People With AIDS Coalition, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and the development of an AIDS research laboratory at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
- Cindy Patton (born 1956) — American sociologist and historian specialising in the history of the AIDS epidemic
- Ron Penny AO (1936–2019) — immunologist, made first AIDS diagnosis in Australia. Obit from JWire
- John Preston (author) (1945–1994) — American writer, editor and pornographer
- Lisa Power (born 1954) — British LGBT and AIDS activist, cofounded Stonewall, policy director of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-ILGA Secretary General, HIV policy officer in London during the early Crisis years
- Ken Ramsauer (died 1983, aged 27) — first person with AIDS to be subject of a national network television news special in the US, being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera on 20/20; see NYT obit
- Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — US President during the early Crisis years. Section "Response to AIDS epidemic" is very brief and minimises his inaction
- Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) — US First Lady during the early Crisis years. No mention of Rock Hudson or her inaction around AIDS; see Buzzfeed
- Steve Rubell (1945–1989) — nightclub owner and hotelier, founder of Studio 54, died of AIDS
- Mark Schoofs — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at the Village Voice for reporting on AIDS
- Sarah Schulman (born 1958) — American novelist, playwright, historian and lesbian rights activist. Several of her written works are redlinked below.
- Randy Shilts (1951–1994) — American journalist, author of Stonewall Book Award winner And the Band Played On; died of AIDS
- Joseph Sonnabend (1933–2021) — lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his GA-class biography, including his own bisexuality and sex life, his move to New York City and much of his work during the AIDS Crisis. Also, this interview with Patrick Strudwick has more about his background, his time in NYC and his interest in music and composition. It might be worth contacting Buzzfeed to see if they'll release any of their photos on an Open licence (though now he's dead that's less of a concern). NYT obit
- Susan Sontag (1933–2004) — very little about her and AIDS
- Juan Suárez Botas (1958–1992) — inspiration for Jonathan Demme to make Philadelphia. Stub is almost entirely based on his NYT obit; more about him in Rolling Stone interview with Demme.
- Paul Volberding — HIV/AIDS researcher, founded the first inpatient ward for people with AIDS in the San Francisco General Hospital; mentioned in several SF sources, including several of the references cited at Bobbi Campbell, such as Andriote 1999
- Mark Wainberg (1945–2017) — discovered 3TC, IAS president 1998–2000, founded JIAS in 2004. See POZ.com obit.
- Edmund White (born 1940) — American novelist and biographer, co-founder of GMHC
- Rupert Whitaker (born 1963) — cofounder of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-boyfriend of Terry Higgins
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- Lawrence Altman — journalist at The New York Times, wrote the first news article about AIDS; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Gregg Alton, EVP Corporate and Medical Affairs at Gilead Sciences; see profile, NAACP article, @greggalton; File:Gregg Alton crop 2012 CHF HIV AIDS 058.jpg
- Robert Atkins (art historian) — art historian, author and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
- Karen Beckerman — San Francisco (and now New York) obstetrician, authored first paper suggesting antiretroviral treatment would reduce transmission (IAS Conf 1998, abs 459, review). IAS profile, UKCAB training transcript, UCSF mag 15:42, HTB meeting review 2002, HTB paper review 2002, BBC. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
- Lucy Bradley-Springer — academic researcher, editor of J. Assoc. Nurses AIDS Care, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: UC Denver. Citations: PubMed, ResearchGate, AETC, OCLC WorldCat. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
- Gina Brown (born 1965 or 1966) — social worker and community organiser, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, LinkedIn, HIV PJA, The Well Project. Interviews: Vox, NOLA Times-Picayune, HIV Positive magazine, HIVE Online (video). Note, this is Gina Brown MSW, not Gina Brown MD from NIH Office of AIDS Research. Note: She is not Gina Brown (Q39274495).
- Françoise Brun-Vézinet — French virologist who helped discover HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Ulysses Burley III — doctor and religious leader, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, World Council of Churches, autobiog, GreatBlackSpeakers.com. Interviews: Black Collegian, NPR
- Michelle Collins-Ogle — healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, PIDS video, Am Assoc HIV Med LinkedIn, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
- Demetre Daskalakis (born c. 1973) — Greek-American physician and activist; NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014–2020), CDC Director of Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (from 21 Dec 2020). HIV.gov announcement, CDC announcement, GMHC announcement, HIV Plus mag article, NBC article Ellines biog
- Delores Dockrey (died 2020) — New Jersey activist and leader; died of Covid-19. See Poz 100 honouring and Poz.com obit
- Richard Dworkin — New York activist, boyfriend of Michael Callen; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Roger Enlow — official AIDS liaison for New York City municipal government; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Alvin Friedman-Kien — coauthor of first paper linking AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. See New York magazine feature and NYU biog. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
- Gary Garrels — art curator (formerly at MoMA, Dia Art Foundation and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
- Grissel Granados (born 1986) — healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, HIV Plus mag, LinkedIn. News: BuzzFeed, Newsweek
- John Hanning (born 1961) — positive artist named to Out's OUT100 in 2017; author of Unfortunate Male (2015), creator of exhibition I Survived AIDS (2017). See also Visual AIDS: biog, review of Unfortunate Male; Printed Matter book review; book details
- Philippe Mangeot (born 1965) — former president of ACT UP-Paris
- Christophe Martet (born 1959) — journalist, former president of ACT UP-Paris
- Patrick O'Connell (artist) (1953–2021) — artist and activist; founding director of Visual AIDS. Obits: NYT, Plus, UNAIDS, LA Blade, Gay Times; Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders (and in POZ); POZ interviews: 1 Jun 1997, 27 Jul 2015
- Charles Ortleb — publisher and editor of Christopher Street and the New York Native and prominent AIDS dissident; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Helen Schietinger — nurse coordinator of UCSF's first AIDS clinic, worked with the AIDS Action Council and Red Cross Societies as an AIDS consultant; now active in Witness Against Torture (an anti-Gitmo organisation). Co-coordinator of the Fifth National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, contributing to the Denver Principles demanded there (see Callen, 1988); interviewed in The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of the Nursing Profession, 1981–1984, volume I. The San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1999. (cited in Bobbi Campbell), wrote a chapter in What to Do about AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues, writes for Sojourners, mentioned in Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of The impact of 9/11 on HIV policy and politics. (Q34945295), so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
- Scott Schoettes — HIV project director at Lambda Legal, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, Lambda, HuffPo. The Seattle Lesbian, on award, The Body, on appointment at Lambda. Interviews: AIDS Chicago, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Articles: HuffPo on Obamacare, 2012, speech to 2013 Lavender Law conference, via POZ.com
- Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) — art historian and founder of Visual AIDS, formerly chief curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, director of Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and member of jury for Flight 93 National Memorial. Refs: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders; Carnegie Museums biog; obits: NYT, Art news, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rutgers, Visual AIDS
- Tim Sweeney (activist) (born 1954 or 1955) — director/CEO of Lambda Legal, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Empire State Pride Agenda and Gill Foundation, amongst others; winner of Judith Peabody award. See Gay City News piece from Judith Peabody award
- Dan Turner (AIDS activist) (died 1990, aged 42) — San Francisco-based playwright, previously personal secretary to Tennessee Williams; founder of People With AIDS movement. See How to Survive a Plague, Andriote 1999 and obits: NYT, LA Times
- Cleews Vellay (1964–1994) — former president of ACT UP-Paris.
- Pietro Vernazza — HIV/AIDS researcher in St. Gallen, Switzerland, author of the Swiss statement that Undetectable = uninfectious. See IAS 2017 interview, ResearchGate, TheBodyPro, background and impact of the Swiss statement (Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK), professional biography. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once he has a Wikidata item created.
- Michael Waldholz — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times for his AIDS reporting
Medical terms, medications and opportunistic infections
- AIDS survivor syndrome
- Cabotegravir — Start-class article with little detail beyond brief mentions of regulatory approval and use for long-acting PrEP
- Entry inhibitor
- HIV tropism — and merge Trofile assay into it
- Long-term nonprogressor
- Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection — No mention of impact of MAI-wasting in the early AIDS Crisis. No mention of whether or not this is / has been a significant problem in the Global South.
- Pre-exposure prophylaxis — no mention of cabotegravir; generally needs (constant) updating
- Protease inhibitor (pharmacology) — Start-class article with no mention of their dramatic impact on the Western AIDS crisis.
- Seroconversion — no mention of AIDS-specific stuff
- Swiss statement by Dr Pietro Vernazza on "Undetectable = uninfectious": BMS (2008) 89:5 (fr). See TheBodyPro, Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK; googling will find plenty of hits.
- Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole — minimal mention of use for prophylaxis of Pneumocystis pneumonia; mentioned repeatedly (using US tradename of Bactrim) in How to Survive a Plague.
- Undetectable — we know now that someone with an undetectable viral load is not contagious, yet this Top-importance term has no article. See HTB special report, Swiss statement (fr), TheBodyPro, Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK, Quinn et al, NEJM 2000; googling "Undetectable = uninfectious" will find plenty of hits.
Organisations and events
- 56 Dean Street — London sexual-health clinic, the largest in Europe and heavily involved work around PrEP
- ACT UP-Paris (founded 1989) — French direct action group
- AIDS Healthcare Foundation (founded 1987) — lots of information about litigation and condoms-in-porn stuff that could do with condensing and summarising; no mention of Michael Weinstein's controversial stance on PrEP
- aidsmap (founded 1987) — website and leaflet publisher providing information to non-scientific audience
- amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research (founded 1983) — research charity headquartered in New York
- Day Without Art (founded 1989) — annual AIDS-awareness event
- Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (founded 1988) — nonprofit working to prevent pædiatric AIDS. should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status, at which point it could be nominated for Did You Know?
- Gay Men's Health Crisis (founded 1982) — AIDS service organization headquartered in (and primarily serving) New York City
- Infected blood scandal (France) — the French article Affaire du sang contaminé has more information that could be used to expand it.
- New York Native (published 1980–97) — New York magazine that became a prominent AIDS dissident publication, edited by Charles Ortleb; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
- Red Hot Organization — might just need review; the article is pretty long already.
- Terrence Higgins Trust (founded 1982) — largest AIDS service organization in the United Kingdom
- TheBody.com (founded 1995) — a magazine website and HIV/AIDS resource headquartered in New York City, founded by James D. Marks, to which this article currently redirects
- Visual AIDS - needs expansion and visuals (email sent for permission)
Cultural artefacts (music, TV, film, theatre and literature etc)
- AIDS and Its Metaphors — 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag
- AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance — 1987 UK public health campaign. Can probably be expanded from National Archives; they ran an event for LGBTQ+ History Month in 2021 mentioning that John Hurt reads the voiceover with "Here is something new, dangerous, alien", given that he was previously known for Alien (1979) — and presumably also for Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), though they didn't mention that in the event.
- Angels in America — 1993 Pulitzer, Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning play by Tony Kushner
- Angels in America (miniseries) — 2014 TV miniseries adaptation, directed by Mike Nichols, awarded multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards
- The Blackwater Lightship — 1999 novel by Colm Tóibín, short-listed for the Booker Prize
- Blond Ambition World Tour — 1990 concert tour by Madonna. There is no mention of the safer-sex advocacy Madonna did during the show and only a fleeting mention of Keith Haring; the documentary Strike a Pose shows a bunch of this.
- Christodora — 2017 novel by Tim Murphy
- Close to the Knives — 1991 memoir by David Wojnarowicz
- The Farewell Symphony — 1997 semi-autobiographical novel by Edmund White
- "For a Friend" — 1988 single by The Communards
- The Green Road (Enright novel) — 2015 novel by Anne Enright, long-listed for the Booker Prize
- It's a Sin (TV series) — 2021 British TV series. Sources: Gay Times conversation with actress Lydia West and Jill Nader, the actress who the character of Jill was based on; Gay Times conversation with actor Omari Douglas and Black 1980s musician Andy Polaris; Buzzfeed conversation with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies and actor Olly Alexander on experiences of growing up gay in the UK; Radio Times interview with screenwriter/showrunner Russell T Davies on casting queer actors for queer roles; Radio Times interview with RTD after show's completion
- The Line of Beauty — 2004 Booker Prize–winning novel by Alan Hollinghurst
- The Line of Beauty (miniseries) — 2006 TV miniseries adaptation, written by Andrew Davies and directed by Saul Dibb
- The Lost Child of Philomena Lee — book (about Philomena Lee) by Martin Sixsmith, adapted to Philomena (film)
- My American History — 1995 collection of journalism, by Sarah Schulman
- The Normal Heart — 1985 play by Larry Kramer, largely autobiographical, which won multiple Tony Awards in its 2011 revival
- The Normal Heart (film) — 2014 TV movie adaptation, written by Kramer and directed by Ryan Murphy
- People in Trouble (novel) — 1990 novel by Sarah Schulman
- Rat Bohemia — 1995 novel by Sarah Schulman, named one of the 100 best LGBT books by the Publishing Triangle
- "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)" — 1990 single by Jimmy Somerville
- Red Hot + Blue — needs formatting properly and some expansion
- Sex Positive — 2008 documentary film about Richard Berkowitz
- Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America — 1998 Stonewall Book Award-winning book by Sarah Schulman
- Strike a Pose — 2016 documentary about Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour
- United in Anger: A History of ACT UP — 2012 documentary film by Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman
- Veronica (2005 novel) — 2005 novel by Mary Gaitskill, National Book Award finalist
- "The Way We Live Now" (short story) — 1986 short story by Susan Sontag, described as "a signature work in the literature of the epidemic"