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The WEBB Party is the biggest annual fundraising push for the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, a nonprofit that’s been preventing the spread of HIV through education, counseling, and testing since 1986. Serving up Fiesta glam with an over-the-top, pop art-inspired fête inspired by the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, “Pop Candy” promises...
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PrideFest drew thousands of revelers, a diverse line-up of performers, and an undeniably impressive roster of drag queens to HemisFair Park on Saturday. Conspicuously absent from the first of the city’s two main Pride Month events were four of the city’s biggest GLBT community organizations. The withdrawal of Human Rights Campaign, Metropolitan Community Church,...
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Know your status? Free HIV testing is now available Saturdays from 11 a.m. — 3 p.m. at SAAF, the San Antonio AIDS Foundation. So, if you’ve been holding off getting tested because you can’t make it to a clinic during business hours, you’ve run out of excuses. Just do it. You’ve got nothing to...
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As part of San Antonio AIDS Foundation's 25th anniversary celebrations, David Weissman's We Were Here: The AIDS Years in San Francisco will be shown Thursday at the Alamo Drafthouse North.
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For the love of whatever deity you worship – use a condom. Yes a condom! Use it every time and use it correctly. Did you know that up to 1 out of 4 people who have HIV don’t know it? Knowing your HIV status can greatly impact your health. If you know you have...
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In the 80′s, as AIDS was rearing its ugly head in the gay community, I felt something akin to a “call from God” to volunteer at the newly established San Antonio Aids Foundation (SAAF). I began by making visits — bringing conversation, hand-holding, magazines, and sometimes food to hospitalized AIDS patients. Soon, I was...
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