Episode 2: Why What Worked for White Gays Won’t Work for Blacks

If a billion dollars were raised to address AIDS in the African American community, given how dysfunctional, culturally inappropriate and ineffective most models of AIDS service are for African Americans, the money would wind up paying for the expensive death and infection of many in our community, particularly women, youth and men involved in homosexuality who don’t identify themselves as being gay.

“The belated acknowledgment that African American homosexual and bisexual men and heterosexual women were dying of AIDS in large numbers occurred in the shadows of an already influential and politically active white gay and AIDS movement.”

Read the full op-ed here.