Boston AIDS walk participants walking down Beacon Street
AIDS Action Committee
AIDS Walk
Crowd of Boston AIDS Walk participants stretches down Beacon Street in Boston with the giant Citgo sign in the distance.
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
1992
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GCN.ORG.00037
Line of women at AIDS Action Committee 1992 AIDS Walk
AIDS Action Committee
Founded in 1983, AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. (AAC), is New England’s first and largest AIDS service organization. AAC’s mission is to stop the epidemic and related health inequities by eliminating new infections, maximizing healthier outcomes of those infected and at risk, and attacking the root causes of HIV/AIDS. AAC sponsors an annual fundraising walk in Boston. In this photograph a group of women holds hands in the crowd during the 1992 Boston AIDS Walk sponsored by the AIDS Action Committee.
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The History Project
1992
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GCN.ORG.00036
Large crowd in AIDS Action Committee AIDS Walk
AIDS Action Committee
AIDS Walk
Large crowd with signs and balloons marches in AIDS Walk in Boston Common.
Janet Woodcock
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
1989
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GCN.ORG.00030
Fred Mandel, Mayor Raymond Flynn, and Surgeon General Charles Koop at AIDS Walk fundraiser
Mandel, Fred
Flynn, Ramond
Koop, Charles
AIDS Walk
All Walks of Life
AIDS Activism
Shub, Ellen
Fred Mandel, Mayor Raymond Flynn, and Surgeon General Charles Koop at an AIDS Walk fundraiser organized by All Walks of Life.
Ellen Shub
Gay Community News (publication and photographs), 1973-1999
The History Project
1989-06-04
Copyright Ellen Shub 1989.
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Interview with Richard Giglio the associate coordinator for the "From All Walks Of Life" walk to benefit AIDS services in Boston, 1989 May 21
Giglio, Richard; AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.); Lesbians; Gay men; Bisexuals; Transgender people
In this recording of Boston's Other Voice, which aired on May 21, 1989, host Peter Stickel interviews Richard Giglio about the "From All Walks Of Life" walk to benefit AIDS services. Giglio describes the charity walk for AIDS, detailing the specifics of the event. The walk is on June 4, 1989, 20,000 people are expected to participate, and the event is projected to raise 1.5 million dollars for 33 different LGBTQ organizations in Boston that support people impacted by AIDS. The program is interrupted by a commercial for the Gay Party Line phone service and again for a song by Joe Bracko called "A Friend in My Pocket."
Boston's Other Voice
The History Project: Documenting LGBTQ Boston
1989-05-21
Stickel, Peter
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THP-046-BOV-067_19890521