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To raise to GA status

These are articles that should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status. Once they achieve GA-status, articles that have not already appeared on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section can be nominated; these are highlighted with , linking to the nomination page.

• Peter Allen (musician) (1944–1992) — Australian singer-songwriter, Liza Minnelli's first husband
• Arthur Ashe (1943–1993) — African-American tennis player who died of AIDS after a blood transfusion.
• Amanda Blake (1929–1989) — American actress
• Perry Ellis (1940–1986) — American fashion designer.
• Anthony Fauci (born 1940) — American clinician; director of NIAID (1984–2022), Chief Medical Advisor to the President (2021–2022). Very little mention of his role in the early US AIDS Crisis and the controversies surrounding it. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his B-class biography, other sources include NYT tribute on Fauci's retirement by ACT UP alumnus Peter Staley
• Halston (1932–1990) — American fashion designer.
• Fran Lebowitz (born 1950) — American writer
• Liberace (1919–1987) — American pianist.
• Keith Haring (1958–1990) — American artist.
• Rock Hudson (1925–1985) — American actor; one of the first “household names” to die of AIDS; good biography with good section about his illness and death, but little mention of how much the Reagans refused to help him gain treatment in Paris; see Buzzfeed
• Derek Jarman (1942–1994) — British filmmaker
• Simon Nkoli (1957–1998) — South African activist
• Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) — Soviet ballet dancer, defected in 1961
• Robert Reed (1932–1992) — American actor best known for playing the patriarch Mike in The Brady Bunch; died of bowel cancer with his HIV status listed as a contributing factor on his death certificate.
• Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968) — German fine-art photographer living in London; no "Personal life" section and no mention of his own HIV status. See interview with Dazed.
• Pedro Zamora (1972–1994) — Cuban-American reality star on The Real World, the first out, HIV+ man to appear on mainstream television and the first ever same-sex commitment ceremony

Needing greater expansion, or work on a specific area

• Donald Acheson (1926–2010) — British clinician, Chief Medical Officer for England, 1983–1991; biography doesn't mention his work on the Early AIDS Crisis at all
• Lawrence K. Altman — American journalist at The New York Times, wrote the first news article about AIDS; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Arthur J. Ammann (1936–2021) — American pediatric immunologist at UCSF and expert in infantile cytomegalovirus, who realised the US blood supply was contaminated with HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. Global Strategies obit, "A conversation with 3 viruses", with Ammann's thoughts on Asian Flu, Covid-19 and AIDS, San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series, volume 3, review of his 2017 Lethal Decisions: The Unnecessary Deaths of Women and Children from HIV/AIDS, 2017 interview with Journey with Jesus
• Jane Anderson (physician) (born 1952) — British physician; co-founded BHIVA, chair National AIDS Trust; championed women in HIV
• John-Manuel Andriote (born 1958) — American journalist and author
• Elizabeth Balgobin (1965/66–2024) — British charity leader, CEO of Blackliners, the UK's first organisation for Black people affected by HIV and AIDS, trustee of National Emergencies Trust, head of ED&I at the Chartered Institute of Fundraising; previously founding chair at Voice4Change England and grant officer at BBC Children in Need. Biogs: National Emergencies Trust. Interviews: On (her own) Mental Health, On Covid 2nd-order effects, On honours, Career retrospective (podcast), In Cause & Effect on Medium. Obits: National Emergencies Trust, Third Sector magazine, Civil Society magazine, short thread from Marc Thompson (with a mention of a podcast, but you'd need to listen to all 4h43m or 5h54m to find the right interview)
• Jacqui Banaszynski (born 1952) — American journalist at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and now a professor of journalism at the University of Missouri, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her 3-part series "AIDS in the Heartland", humanising AIDS by profiling a rural couple, one of whom became the 125th Minnesotan to die of AIDS on July 25, 1987, at the age of 37. About the series; parts 1, 2, 3.
• Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947) — French Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
• Christopher Bell (scholar) (1974–2009) — American scholar of disability studies working in the area of HIV/AIDS, race and ethnicity
• Richard Berkowitz (born 1955) — American sex worker and activist from New York, co-author of How to Have Sex in an Epidemic; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Mike Beuttler (1940–1988) — British Formula 1 driver, only known LGBTQ+ driver to have raced at that level; died of AIDS in 1988
• Norbert Bischofberger (born 1954), Austrian clinician, chief scientific officer at Gilead, involved in development of tenofovir disoproxil, Truvada and (unrelated to HIV) sofosbuvir and Tamiflu; see article
• Virginia Bottomley (born 1948) — British politician. Nothing about her tenure as Secretary of State for Health 1992–1995, when she cut funding for HIV and campaigners protested using "I'm an evil Tory bigot", an anagram of her name: see The Guardian, West Yorkshire Queer Stories, Wellcome
• Hydeia Broadbent (1984–2024) — American activist, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) — US President during the early Crisis years. No mention of his approach to the AIDS Crisis (or lack thereof).
• Gia Carangi (1960–1986) — American model, "world's first supermodel"; one of the first famous women to die of AIDS (having contracted HIV through her IV drug use).
• Cecilia Chung (鍾紹琪, born 1965) — Hong Kong–American activist and civil rights leader, first trans and first Asian director of San Francisco Pride, SF Health Commissioner, PACHA commissioner, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• Christopher Coe (1953–1994) — American novelist
• Emmanuelle Cosse (born 1974) — French politician, activist and former president of ACT UP-Paris
• Spencer Cox (activist) (1968–2012) — American activist at ACT UP New York and Treatment Action Group who helped design the clinical trials that led to the introduction of protease inhibitors. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
• James W. Curran — American clinician, head of the AIDS taskforce at the CDC during the early AIDS Crisis. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his Start-class biography.
• Demetre Daskalakis (born c. 1973) — Greek-American physician and activist; NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (2014–2020), CDC Director of Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (from 21 Dec 2020). HIV.gov announcement, CDC announcement, GMHC announcement, HIV Plus mag article, NBC article Ellines biog
• Dennis deLeon (1948–2009) — American activist, president of the Latino Commission on AIDS, posthumously 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• George Deukmejian (1928–2018) — American politician, Governor of California (1983–1991); only a cursory mention of the Early AIDS Crisis in his biog. He's mentioned in the last episode of the 2023 miniseries Fellow Travelers, where 2 characters try to persuade Deukmejian not to veto a bill regarding healthcare for PWAIDS
• Martin Duberman (born 1930) — American historian, award-winning author of 2014 Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the battlefield of AIDS
• Gaëtan Dugas (1953–1984) — Canadian flight-attendant, long misidentified as "patient zero" of the North American AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) — American artist, died shortly before a MoMA exhibition including his work. Poz.com article
• Charles Farthing (1953–2014) — New Zealand physician. Cofounded first HIV service in UK at St. Stephen's Hospital, London; clinical trials for thymosin, AZT and foscarnet; founding chair of APPG HIV/AIDS; medical director at AIDS Healthcare Foundation during protease revolution impacts, 2001–2007. Guardian obit
• Richard Feachem (born 1947) — British clinician, HIV/AIDS researcher
• Nigel Finch (1949–1995) — English filmmaker. A little more in the foreword to the 2021 reissue of Simon Garfield's The End of Innocence, excerpted in full for Esquire; his boyfriend Rupert Haselden, whose interview forms the foreword, might also be notable?
• David France (writer) (born 1959) — American writer and filmmaker, Stonewall Book Award winner
• Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler (born 1938) — English politician, Secretary of State for Health and Social Services during the start of the AIDS crisis in the UK, his Start-class biography makes little reference to the impact he had on the British government having a response, let alone its content. Was instrumental in UK govt sending a leaflet to every household in the UK in February 1987, the biggest AIDS-related public health campaign in the world at the time. [Edits made]
• Gao Yaojie (高耀潔, 1927–2023) — Chinese gynecologist and AIDS activist who revealed China's AIDS epidemic, including the Bloodhead scandal due to the Plasma Economy in Henan. Articles: Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Watch; biogs: Vital Voices, China.org.cn, Institute for the Study of Human Rights; obits: The Guardian, South China Morning Post, NPR, Time, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, France24, Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation
• Elizabeth Glaser (1947–1994) — American actor and AIDS campaigner after having contracted HIV from a blood transfusion in childbirth; her daughter Ariel (1981–1988) was infected through breastfeeding and her son Jake (born 1984) was infected in utero is an elite controller with the mutation CCR5-Δ32. Her Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has reached an estimated 20 million women worldwide, testing 17 million, and enrolling more the 2.2 million in its HIV care and support program: Plus
• Gregg Gonsalves (born 1963) — American activist and epidemiologist; cofounder of the Treatment Action Group, associate professor at Yale School of Public Health and 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog. He's also been very active in the Covid-19 pandemic.
• Vincent Hanley (1954–1987) — Irish radio DJ; one of the first men to die of AIDS in Ireland. A little more information from Irish Queer Archive on Instagram.
• Mark Harrington (born 1958 or 1959) — American activist and researcher; cofounder of the Treatment Action Group and 1997 MacArthur Fellow. Lots of information in How to Survive a Plague and in his MacArthur biog.
• Terry Higgins (1945–1982) — Welsh clerk and DJ; one of the first men to die of AIDS in the United Kingdom, Terence Higgins Trust, the UK's biggest service organisation, was founded in his memory
• Amber L. Hollibaugh (1946–2023) — American writer, filmmaker and political activist. Sources: Google Scholar; sources for The Heart of the Matter: IMDb, TCMDb (US only), PBS, ACT UP NYC part 1 and part 2, Variety review
• Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser) (1942–1993) — assistant to Andy Warhol, boyfriend of Halston
• Peter Hujar (1934–1987) — American photographer
• Sheila Jackson Lee (1950–2024) — American politician. No mention of her work for PLWHIV. Gregg Gonsalves mentioned it in his skeet about her death; KHOU obit (US only); Yale Daily News obit
• Margaret Johnson (scientist) — British clinician; cofounded BHIVA, first dedicated HIV doctor at the Royal Free Hospital; championed women in HIV
• Ed Koch (1924–2013) — American politician; Mayor of New York 1978–1990, during the height of the AIDS Crisis How to Survive a Plague offers the potential for expansion about this aspect of his mayoralty.
• Mathilde Krim (1926–2018) — Swiss-American researcher; early AIDS researcher and funder of Joseph Sonnabend; cofounder of amfAR; held a press conference to attempt to calm the argument between Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier over the discovery of HIV. Mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. Obits: NYT, Peter Staley, AIDS History project, TAG
• Josh Kruger (1984–2023) — US activist. Coverage includes profile on injectables in Poz, 2023
• Dennis Levy (born 1948) — American activist; CEO and founder of Black and Latino AIDS Coalition.
• James O. Mason (born 1930) — American clinician; CDC director and US Surgeon General during the AIDS Crisis; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Stewart McKinney (politician) (1931–1987) — American politician; Republican representative for CT-04 (1971–1987); coined the phrase "too big to fail"
• Rodger McFarlane (1955–2009) — American activist; first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis and co-founder of ACT UP NYC; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• David Mixner (1946–2024) — American activist and author. ITN nomination for his death was declined, due to too much maintenance required. Obits: CovidHealth.com
• Paul Monette (1945–1995) — American author, poet and activist based in West Hollywood
• Luc Montagnier (born 1932) — French immunologist; Nobel Laureate co-discoverer of HIV with only a C-class biography, despite being of Top-importance
• Alan Murphy (1953–1989) — British guitarist with Kate Bush, Go West and Level 42
• Ann Northrop (born 1948) — American author, active in ACT UP New York City. More information in Let the Record Show
• Judith Peabody (1930–2010) — New York socialite and philanthropist, active fundraiser for Gay Men's Health Crisis, People With AIDS Coalition, Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center and the development of an AIDS research laboratory at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
• Cindy Patton (born 1956) — American sociologist and historian specialising in the history of the AIDS epidemic
• Mark Patton (both 1958) — American actor, first male scream queen as lead in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and subject of Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (which will be a useful ref, see Lee Mandelo's review)
• Ron Penny AO (1936–2019) — Australian immunologist, made first AIDS diagnosis in Australia. Obit from JWire
• John Preston (American author) (1945–1994) — American writer, editor and pornographer
• Lisa Power (born 1954) — British LGBT and AIDS activist, cofounded Stonewall, policy director of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-ILGA Secretary General, HIV policy officer in London during the early Crisis years
• Ken Ramsauer (died 1983, aged 27) — American businessman; first person with AIDS to be subject of a national network television news special in the US, being interviewed by Geraldo Rivera on 20/20; see NYT obit
• Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) — US President during the early Crisis years. Section "Response to AIDS epidemic" is very brief and minimises his inaction; see Buzzfeed
• Nancy Reagan (1921–2016) — US First Lady during the early Crisis years. No mention of Rock Hudson or her inaction around AIDS; see Buzzfeed
• Jean-Luc Romero (born 1959) — French politician and activist, deputy mayor of Paris. His his frwiki biography has plenty of content to bring across.
• Steve Rubell (1945–1989) — American nightclub owner and hotelier, founder of Studio 54, died of AIDS
• Mark Schoofs — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at the Village Voice for reporting on AIDS
• Sarah Schulman (born 1958) — American novelist, playwright, historian and lesbian rights activist. Several of her written works are redlinked below. Good interview with Jacobin about Let the Record Show
• Randy Shilts (1951–1994) — American journalist, author of Stonewall Book Award winner And the Band Played On; died of AIDS
• Joseph Sonnabend (1933–2021) — South African clinician. lots of information in How to Survive a Plague not covered in his GA-class biography, including his own bisexuality and sex life, his move to New York City and much of his work during the AIDS Crisis. Also, this interview with Patrick Strudwick has more about his background, his time in NYC and his interest in music and composition. It might be worth contacting Buzzfeed to see if they'll release any of their photos on an Open licence (though now he's dead that's less of a concern). NYT obit, Brian Deer Sunday Times piece from 1992.
• Susan Sontag (1933–2004) — American writer and critic; very little about her and AIDS
• Larry Speakes (1939–2014) — White House Press Secretary for most of the Reagan administration; very little about his jokes and repeated indifference to the AIDS Crisis. Refs: When AIDS was Funny, a short film via Vanity Fair; VF article 1 Dec 2015; Washington Post 1 Dec 2015; New York magazine Dec 2013; Vice 1 Dec 2015; Buzzfeed 2 Dec 2013; FT 7 Dec 2016
• Michael Staniforth (1942–1987) — British actor, known for Rentaghost
• Sean Strub (born 1958) — American writer, activist and entrepreneur. Founder of POZ, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024
• Juan Suárez Botas (1958–1992) — Spanish illustrator and filmmaker; inspiration for Jonathan Demme to make Philadelphia. Stub is almost entirely based on his NYT obit; more about him in Rolling Stone interview with Demme.
• Sandra Thurman — US public servant, director of ONAP under Bill Clinton, chief strategy officer at Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and PEPFAR, senior advisor for strategy and development at CDC, director (and faculty member) at Rollins School of Public Health; honoured with an "Elizabeth Taylor Commitment to End AIDS award" in 2021. Biogs: Rollins SPH, Clinton White House, WebMD, Robert Carr Fund; Liz Taylor award: Variety, THR, ETAF; Clinton appointment: Sandra Thurman named as new 'AIDS Czar'. (Q48831839)[Edits made]
• Tseng Kwong Chi (曾廣智, 1950–1990) — Hong-Kong-born American photographer, active in the East Village art scene, brother to Muna Tseng and frequent photographer of Keith Haring's work. Refs: NYT retrospective, Apple Daily retrospective (in Chinese), NYT obit, Visual AIDS biog. Artist's site (by sister): mid-length biog, longer biog
• Urvashi Vaid (1958–2022) — Indian and American activist, lawyer and writer; ED of US National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and AIDS activist. Almost no mention of her work during the Early AIDS Crisis. Refs: Advocate obit, LA Blade obit, memorial thread from Sarah Schulman
• Paul Volberding — American HIV/AIDS researcher, founded the first inpatient ward for people with AIDS in the San Francisco General Hospital; mentioned in several SF sources, including several of the references cited at Bobbi Campbell, such as Andriote 1999
• Tom Waddell (1937–1987) — American doctor and decathlete; founder of the Gay Games. Article is pretty good, but needs better inline referencing
• Mark Wainberg (1945–2017) — Canadian researcher; discovered 3TC, IAS president 1998–2000, founded JIAS in 2004. See POZ.com obit.
• Edmund White (born 1940) — American novelist and biographer, co-founder of GMHC
• Rupert Whitaker OBE (born 1963) — British psychiatrist, immunologist, and patient advocate; cofounder of Terrence Higgins Trust, ex-boyfriend of Terry Higgins
• Phill Wilson — American activist. Former AIDS coordinator in LA, former cochair of the LA HIV Health Commission, founding president and CEO Black AIDS Institute, appointed to Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2010, 2024 POZ icon. Refs: POZ icons 2024

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• Prof Sir Michael W. Adler CBE FRCP (born 12 June 1939) — British GUM physician. Emeritus prof at Royal Free and University College Medical School; founded National AIDS Trust; founding editor AIDS (journal); founding member APPG HIV/AIDS; advisor to UK govt, UN, European Commission, WHO; involved in first sexual health and HIV strategy in England in 2001. Married to Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington. Refs include UCL biog, Who's Who? Companies House
• Gregg Alton, American lawyer; EVP Corporate and Medical Affairs at Gilead Sciences; see profile, NAACP article, @greggalton; File:Gregg Alton crop 2012 CHF HIV AIDS 058.jpg
• Robert Atkins (art historian) — American art historian, author and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
• Duke Armstrong (1949–1988) — San Francisco lawyer, leatherman and Republican Party activist, president of the board of Concerned Republicans for Individual Rights. Sued on behalf of bathhouses closed during the early Crisis Years. Papers available offline at GLBT Historical Society. Mentioned in Leo Herrera's Fathers Project #4 (NSFW!), a fictional imagination of what might have been, without AIDS.
• Karen Beckerman — San Francisco (and now New York) obstetrician, authored first paper suggesting antiretroviral treatment would reduce transmission (IAS Conf 1998, abs 459, review). IAS profile, UKCAB training transcript, UCSF mag 15:42, HTB meeting review 2002, HTB paper review 2002, BBC. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Lucy Bradley-Springer — American academic researcher, editor of J. Assoc. Nurses AIDS Care, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: UC Denver. Citations: PubMed, ResearchGate, AETC, OCLC WorldCat. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Françoise Brun-Vézinet [fr] — French virologist who helped discover HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Ulysses Burley III — American doctor and religious leader, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, World Council of Churches, autobiog, GreatBlackSpeakers.com. Interviews: Black Collegian, NPR
• Martyn Butler OBE (1954–2026) — cofounder of THT. Obits: THT
• Alessandro Ceccarelli — Italian and British archæologist, former head of LGBTQ+ policy at Welsh Govt, former community leader at Fast Track Cymru, repeatedly named to Pinc List
• Michelle Collins-Ogle — American healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, PIDS video, Am Assoc HIV Med LinkedIn, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Delores Dockrey (died 2020) — New Jersey activist and leader; died of Covid-19. See Poz 100 honouring and Poz.com obit
• Richard Dworkin — New York activist, boyfriend of Michael Callen; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Roger Enlow (1948–2009) — American clinician; official AIDS liaison for New York City municipal government. Mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. obit
• Kitty Fischer (activist) (b. 1927) — Czechoslovak Auschwitz survivor saved by a gay prisoner. Oral history interviews: US Holocaust Museum, USC Shoah Foundation, EHRI
• Alvin Friedman-Kien — American dermatologist; coauthor of first paper linking AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague. See New York magazine feature and NYU biog. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Gary Garrels — American art curator (formerly at MoMA, Dia Art Foundation and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) and founder of Visual AIDS. Ref: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders
• Prof Brian Gazzard — British HIV physician, with Dr Charles Farthing set up the UK's first HIV service at St. Stephen's Hospital, London; founding member APPG HIV/AIDS. Charles Farthing's obit, which he wrote, gives frank insight into the Early AIDS Crisis in the UK
• Eileen Glutzer — San Francisco nurse who appears in We Were Here. Articles: Cool Grey City of Love, Nature Medicine Blog, San Francisco Chronicle, Curating an Archive of Feelings: Tracing Lesbian Narratives Through the AIDS Crisis into 21st Century Queer Collections & Spaces
• Grissel Granados (born 1986) — Mexican/American healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, HIV Plus mag, LinkedIn. News: BuzzFeed, Newsweek
• Robert M. Grant (physician) — American HIV physician, led the iPrEx trial that showed the efficacy of Truvada PrEP. UCSF profile, HIV.gov interview, 2019 Congressional testimony: HIV Prevention Drug: Billions in Corporate Profits After Millions in Taxpayer Investments.” 2010 NEJM paper on iPrEx and PrEP, How 2 OfferPrEP.com About page, Grant's website, mentioned as "father of PrEP" in Peter Staley's opening speech for CROI 2026
• Abderrahim el Habachi — Moroccan and Welsh activist and writer, Glitter Cymru, Fast Track Cardiff & Vale.
• John Hanning (born 1961) — American artist named to Out's OUT100 in 2017; author of Unfortunate Male (2015), creator of exhibition I Survived AIDS (2017). See also Visual AIDS: biog, review of Unfortunate Male; Printed Matter book review; book details
• Ronald Johnson (HIV activist) (born c. 1948) — American activist and public servant; first NYC citywide coordinator for AIDS policy (1992–1997), associate ED policy at GMHC (1997–2006), member of PACHA (1996–2001), VP policy & advocacy at AIDS United (2011? – 2017) As of June 2023^[update] is chair of US PLWHIV Caucus; recognised by ETAF and others in 2018 (Desert Charities News); profiled in Plus in 2018, in POZ in 2021; quoted by The Body in 2019, Positive Women's Network in 2021, SAGE USA in 2023; co-authored op-ed in the Washington Blade and called for SOGI&SH training in NY state in 2020; mentioned in Poz at 40th anniversary of Denver Principles
• Rae Lewis-Thornton — American activist: "Emmy Award Winning AIDS Activist Rae Lewis-Thornton rose to national acclaim when she told her story of living with AIDS in a cover story for Essence Magazine". She has been living with HIV since 1983; profile as a Poz icon 2025
• Philippe Mangeot [fr] (born 1965) — French educator and activist; former president of ACT UP-Paris
• Christophe Martet [fr] (born 1959) — French journalist, former president of ACT UP-Paris
• Patrick O'Connell (artist) (1953–2021) — American artist and activist; founding director of Visual AIDS. Obits: NYT, Plus, UNAIDS, LA Blade, Gay Times; Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders (and in POZ); POZ interviews: 1 Jun 1997, 27 Jul 2015
• Charles Ortleb — American journalist; publisher and editor of Christopher Street and the New York Native and prominent AIDS dissident; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
• Prof Anthony Pinching (Anthony John Pinching, born March 1947) — British immunologist at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. Did significant work on immunology of HIV in the 1980s, incl 1984 meeting report (Wikidata QQ93777314), also worked on ME/CFS; founding member APPG HIV/AIDS; ¿trustee at Terrence Higgins Trust?; recent evidence to UK Infected Blood Enquiry (25pp); refuted HIV denialism on Channel 4 in 1990
• Helen Schietinger — American nurse coordinator of UCSF's first AIDS clinic, worked with the AIDS Action Council and Red Cross Societies as an AIDS consultant; now active in Witness Against Torture (an anti-Gitmo organisation). Co-coordinator of the Fifth National Lesbian and Gay Health Conference, contributing to the Denver Principles demanded there (see Callen, 1988 and Poz, 2023); interviewed in The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Response of the Nursing Profession, 1981–1984, volume I. The San Francisco AIDS Oral History Series. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 1999. (cited in Bobbi Campbell), wrote a chapter in What to Do about AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues, writes for Sojourners, mentioned in Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America by John-Manuel Andriote. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of The impact of 9/11 on HIV policy and politics (Q34945295), so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once she has a Wikidata item created.
• Scott Schoettes — American lawyer; HIV project director at Lambda Legal, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, Lambda, HuffPo. The Seattle Lesbian, on award, The Body, on appointment at Lambda. Interviews: AIDS Chicago, BuzzFeed, Newsweek. Articles: HuffPo on Obamacare, 2012, speech to 2013 Lavender Law conference, via POZ.com
• Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) — American art historian and founder of Visual AIDS, formerly chief curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art, director of The Andy Warhol Museum, director of Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University and member of jury for Flight 93 National Memorial. Refs: Visual AIDS: Honoring the Founders; Carnegie Museums biog; obits: NYT, Art news, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Rutgers, Visual AIDS
• David Stuart (sexual health activist) (c. 1965 – 2022; ORCID 0000-0003-4056-6730) — British (Australian?) support worker at 56 Dean Street in London, coined the term "chemsex" and was interviewed at length in the 2015 docu film of the same name. Autobiog; Obits: PinkNews, FilterMag, London Friend, GayTimes, Attitude, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Scottish Drugs Forum, VIH.org (in French), from a friend. Other links: Op-ed on chemsex for Plus magazine, Stuart on 1985 film Buddies; 2014 podcast interview, 2013 paper: "Sexualised drug use by MSM: background, current status and response" (pp6–10)
• Tim Sweeney (activist) (born 1954 or 1955) — American director/CEO of Lambda Legal, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Empire State Pride Agenda and Gill Foundation, amongst others; winner of Judith Peabody award. See Gay City News piece from Judith Peabody award
• Dan Turner (AIDS activist) (died 1990, aged 42) — San Francisco-based playwright, previously personal secretary to Tennessee Williams; founder of People With AIDS movement. See How to Survive a Plague, Andriote 1999 and obits: NYT, LA Times
• Cleews Vellay [fr] (1964–1994) — French activist; former president of ACT UP-Paris.
• Jason Veasey (born c. 1980) — American actor. Interviewed in Poz June 2025
• Pietro Vernazza — HIV/AIDS researcher in St. Gallen, Switzerland, author of the Swiss statement that undetectable = uninfectious. See IAS 2017 interview, ResearchGate, TheBodyPro, background and impact of the Swiss statement (Medical Brief ZA, NAM UK), professional biography. Mentioned in author name string (P2093) of several papers, so there is some Wikidata maintenance to do there once he has a Wikidata item created.
• Michael Waldholz — US journalist, won a Pulitzer Prize at The New York Times for his AIDS reporting