Wikipedia:WikiProject AIDS/To do

Biographies

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) — 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) — 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
  • ? Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) — Soviet ballet dancer, defected in 1961
  • ? Robert Reed (1932–1992) — Actor best known for playing the patriarch Mike in The Brady Bunch; died on 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) — 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

For creation

Once these articles reach 1,500 characters of prose they can (and should!) be nominated to appear on the Main Page in the Did You Know? section. (That character length excludes infoboxes, categories, references, lists, and tables and so on; use DYKcheck.js, prosesize.js or charcount.shtml to measure prose length; see WP:DYKRULES for detailed rules.)

  • Lawrence Altman — journalist at The New York Times, wrote the first news article about AIDS; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
  • Gregg Alton, 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) — 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.
  • 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)
  • 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 — 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.
  • Nancy Brooks Brody (1962–2023) — American artist and activist, cofounder of fierce pussy and ACT UP member; exhibited in MoMA as a part of Greater New York, 11 Oct 2015 – 7 Mar 2016. Her website: www.nancybrooksbrody.com; Oral history interview at Smithsonian; Interview from Visual AIDS; Profile at Mutual Art. Obit: ArtForum, Art News, Justin Vivian Bond (on Instagram)
  • Gina Brown (born 1965 or 1966) — social worker and community organiser, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, LinkedIn, HIV PJA, The Well Project. Interviews: Vox, NOLA Times-Picayune, HIV Positive magazine, HIVE Online (video). Note, this is Gina Brown MSW, not Gina Brown MD from NIH Office of AIDS Research. Note: She is not Gina Brown (Q39274495).
  • Françoise Brun-Vézinet [fr] — French virologist who helped discover HIV; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
  • Ulysses Burley III — doctor and religious leader, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, World Council of Churches, autobiog, GreatBlackSpeakers.com. Interviews: Black Collegian, NPR
  • Michelle Collins-Ogle — 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.
  • Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) — American artist, died shortly before a MoMA exhibition including his work. Poz.com article
  • Roger Enlow — official AIDS liaison for New York City municipal government; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
  • Alvin Friedman-Kien — 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 — 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
  • Aileen Glutzer - nurse who appears in We Were Here (film). 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) — healthcare worker, resigned from PACHA in 2017. Biogs: PACHA, HIV Plus mag, LinkedIn. News: BuzzFeed, Newsweek
  • John Hanning (born 1961) — positive 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) — 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 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
  • Philippe Mangeot [fr] (born 1965) — former president of ACT UP-Paris
  • Christophe Martet [fr] (born 1959) — journalist, former president of ACT UP-Paris
  • Patrick O'Connell (artist) (1953–2021) — 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 — publisher and editor of Christopher Street and the New York Native and prominent AIDS dissident; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
  • Helen Schietinger — 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 — 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
  • Linda Scruggs (born c. 1964) — co-exec-director of US service organisation Ribbon, founding member of Positive Women's Network USA, founding member of US National Black Woman HIV Network. Mentioned by Barack Obama when launching his National HIV/AIDS Strategy; profiled in Poz in 2012, in Plus in 2015; mentioned in The Lancet and Poz, quoted by UNAIDS on 40th anniversary of Denver Principles. Biogs on LinkedIn, Ribbon and The Well Project.
  • Thomas Sokolowski (1950–2020) — 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) — 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) — 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) — former president of ACT UP-Paris.
  • 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

Medical terms, medications and opportunistic infections

Organisations and events

  • 56 Dean Street — London sexual-health clinic, the largest in Europe and heavily involved work around PrEP; really good Gay Times article on Dean Street Express for its 10th anniversary
  • ACT UP-Paris [fr] (founded 1989) — French direct action group
  • AIDS Healthcare Foundation (founded 1987) — lots of information about litigation and condoms-in-porn stuff that could do with condensing and summarising; no mention of Michael Weinstein's controversial stance on PrEP
  • aidsmap (founded 1987) — website and leaflet publisher providing information to non-scientific audience
  • amfAR (founded 1983) — research charity headquartered in New York
  • No article Blackliners (founded 1989, registered charity 1992, closed 2003) — UK service organisation focussing on Black PWA. Mention of founding in Pink News interview with Marc Thompson, Wellcome Collection items, Black Cultural Archives ref, US NIH National Library of Medicine: poster, Ethnic Minority publications: HIV graphic comms archive, JSTOR OA poster, full JSTOR image search, archived website, interview with co-founder Dawn Hill, Evidence to UK Parliament Health Select Committee (and following pages), Mem & Arts at UK Charity Commission
  • Canadian AIDS Society — Seeking peer review!
  • Contaminated blood scandal in France — the French article Affaire du sang contaminé has more information that could be used to expand it.
  • Day Without Art (founded 1989) — annual AIDS-awareness event
  • Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (founded 1988) — nonprofit working to prevent pædiatric AIDS. should only need a little effort to reach Good Article status, at which point it could be nominated for Did You Know?
  • Gay Men's Health Crisis (founded 1982) — AIDS service organization headquartered in (and primarily serving) New York City
  • New York Native (published 1980–97) — New York magazine that became a prominent AIDS dissident publication, edited by Charles Ortleb; mentioned in How to Survive a Plague.
  • People With AIDS — article could do with cleanup more than expansion. In the 40th anniversary month of the Denver Principles (redirects to the PWA article; could be split out?), POZ.com reprinted Mark S. King’s 30th-anniversary article “How the Denver Principles Changed Health Care Forever” from 2013
  • Red Hot Organization — might just need review; the article is pretty long already.
  • Terrence Higgins Trust (founded 1982) — largest AIDS service organization in the United Kingdom
  • No article TheBody.com (founded 1995) — a magazine website and HIV/AIDS resource headquartered in New York City, founded by James D. Marks, to which this article redirected before his biog was deleted
  • Visual AIDS — needs expansion and visuals (email sent for permission)

Cultural artefacts (music, TV, film, theatre and literature etc)

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