April
5 – Filmmaker, educator, poet and activist Marlon Riggs dies of AIDS-related complications at age 37. (1994)
Marlon RiggsWikipedia
10 – National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
18 – National Transgender HIV Testing Day
19 – A revival of 1985’s off-Broadway drama The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer opens on Broadway. (2011)
“The Normal Heart” Playbill
May
4 – Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches opens on Broadway. (1993)
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18 – HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
19 – National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
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29 – Vienna holds its first Life Ball, which becomes one of the world’s biggest annual AIDS charity events. The last Life Ball was held in 2019. (1993)
The red ribbon covers Vienna City Hall’s facadeCourtesy of Life Ball/Rainer Gregor Eckharte
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