Neil G. Giuliano

Thirty years ago the very first call came in to San Francisco AIDS Foundation, then known as the Kaposi's Sarcoma Research and Education Foundation. The AIDS epidemic was just beginning to devastate our city. People in our community were desperate, and desperately in need of information, care, and compassion. The...

Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic 30 years ago, public health campaigns have played a critical role in spreading information about the disease. Some of these campaigns have been racy. Some have been bold and in-your-face. Some have played to our hopes, and some have played to our...

On the evening Dec. 1, San Francisco City Hall will be bathed in red light in honor of World AIDS Day. It will be a fitting recognition of all we have lost and all we have yet to accomplish. I look forward to a future World AIDS Day when all...

By the time Tom Hanks had won an Oscar in 1994 for portraying a gay man dying of AIDS, 270,000 Americans had died from the disease -- most of them gay men. It had been thirteen years since an obscure medical publication reported a mysterious syndrome that caused a rapid,...

In a moment when our right to love was upheld by the California Constitution and then dashed by a narrow vote, the LGBT community has a right -- even a responsibility -- to make our voices heard. Since Election Day, there has been a tremendous outpouring of frustration and determination...

After Proposition 8 and other anti-gay ballot initiatives passed on November 4, there have been a lot of important conversations about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues and what is next for our community. We saw significant setbacks on November 4, but there has been a surge in grassroots...

On Sunday, May 11, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the season finale of ABC's Emmy®-winning series Brothers & Sisters, which featured the wedding of two of its characters - Kevin Walker and Scotty Wandell. Beyond being a momentous event for the characters, this stood as the first such...

Every Sunday, I tune in to Brothers & Sisters, and, like millions of other Americans, enjoy the unfolding dramas of the Walker family as they play out from week to week. As a gay man, I am especially happy to find out what is happening with Kevin Walker, a multifaceted...

This August marked the fifth anniversary of The New York Times opening its weddings and celebrations pages to gay and lesbian couples. When the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) first approached the Times in July 2002, only 27 states had a newspaper with an inclusive announcement policy. Following...