Events tagged with "World AIDS Day"
Rainbow Voices
Rainbow Voices is Birmingham's choir for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people and their friends. It was set up in 1995 as the initiative of a group of enthusiastic would-be choristers including Paul Naylor, who was the choir's musical dir...
World AIDS Day
The first global World AIDS Day was December 1st 1988. It started as a day to share messages of hope, compassion and understanding about AIDS to the world. It came about through The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, or UNAIDS.In Birming...
Memories tagged with "World AIDS Day"
Hundreds Join AIDS Vigil
This editorial from 'In The Pink', December 1989, reports the first World Aids Day Candlelight Vigil in Birmingham and also highlights the way some right wing politicians used the human tragedy of the AIDS crisis to further their ideology.HUNDREDS JO...
Worlds Aids Day 1989
“In 1989 the World AIDS Day Committee was formed and has organised whatever happened since. The first candlelight vigil was in 1989 in Chamberlain Square, followed by an "underground" march to St Martin's. After that it was held outside either in Cha...