Best-selling author & award-winning journalist
During my research for Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Crusade to Change the World, I often met with the inimitable Dr. Esther Schumann. She was widely considered one of the most effective doctors at AHF, and the following excerpt shows why — she never gave up on her patients. Read more...
With little fanfare, in American cities outside New York and San Francisco, men and women fought heroic battles against politicians and government bureaucrats who refused to address the major public health crisis that was the AIDS epidemic. In Dallas, one such activist was Jamie Schield. Read more...
In the middle of Dongdan Park in Beijing, China, next to a volleyball court, there is a yellow demarcation line that gay men rarely cross. A few miles away, at Mundanyuan Park, deceased gay men have been buried alongside a condom-littered, bush-shrouded dirt trail that’s used as a secret cruising spot for sex. Read more...