March
10 – National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
14 – Larry Kramer’s essay “1,112 and Counting” on the emerging AIDS epidemic runs on the front page of the New York Native. “If this article doesn’t rouse you to anger, fury, rage and action,” he wrote, “gay men may have no future on this Earth.” (1983)
Larry KramerNathan Perkel
14 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launches “Take Charge. Take the Test,” an HIV awareness campaign reminding Black women that they have power to protect themselves against HIV. (2012)
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19 – My Brother’s Keeper, a movie about identical twin brothers (played by John Lithgow) who sue an insurance company to pay for a lifesaving bone marrow transplant for one of the brothers, who is living with HIV, premieres on CBS. (1995)
“My Brother’s Keeper”IMDB
20 – National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
21 – Actor Dack Rambo, known for roles on Dallas and Another World, dies of AIDS-related complications at age 52. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to publicly acknowledge he was living with HIV. After he was diagnosed, he retired from acting and spent the rest of his life raising awareness about AIDS. (1994)
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