Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 6 of 6

ACT UP / Boston (Raymond Schmidt and Stephen Skuce) collection

 Collection
Identifier: M149
Overview The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP / Boston) was founded in 1987 by activists Raymond Schmidt, Stephen Skuce, Donald Smith, and Paul Wychules to focus local efforts to speed up the development of AIDS treatments, educational programs, and prevention strategies. The membership was a diverse, nonpartisan group of people united in anger and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis in Boston and throughout the country. The organization was most active from 1988 - 1994 during...
Dates: 1987-2007; Majority of material found within 1988-1995

ACT UP/Boston (David Stitt) collection

 Collection
Identifier: M179
Overview David Stitt was a member and volunteer with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power Boston chapter (ACT UP/Boston). He was involved with a few of the organization's projects, most notably the production of Attitude! newsletter. Stitt also participated in the "rubber fairies" (a program to promote safer sex) and the IV League (a needle exchange program). ACT UP/Boston was founded in 1987 as a way to focus local efforts in support of the development of...
Dates: 1986-1994

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: M061
Overview The AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. was founded in 1983 by a group of volunteers. Larry Kessler, one of the founders of the AIDS Action Committee, became its first Executive Director in 1983. The AIDS Action Committee began its life as a special committee of the Fenway Community Health Center and in 1986 became an independent entity. It is the oldest and largest organization in New England dedicated to helping persons with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and HIV...
Dates: 1975-2007; Majority of material found within 1987-1996

Boston Living Center records

 Collection
Identifier: M209
Overview The Boston Living Center began in 1988 as a peer-run community center and meals program for individuals with HIV/AIDS. The Center expanded its outreach activities and now offers daily meals as well as many events, workshops, and fundraisers for the AIDS community. Its two largest events are their annual Celebration of Life Thanksgiving Dinner and annual fundraiser Dinnerfest. Originally located in the Claredon Street YWCA, the Center moved to 29 Stanhope Street in 1995. In 2012, the Boston...
Dates: 1977-2011

Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation (HOPE) records

 Collection
Identifier: M188
Overview For 40 years from 1971-2011 the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation (HOPE) was a prominent community based organization with regional offices in Boston, Lawrence, and Springfield, Massachusetts. HOPE offered a variety of educational and health and human services programs for the Latino community of Massachusetts in the areas of college readiness, health promotion, prevention education, technology training, and workforce and leadership development. Program highlights included an annual...
Dates: 1957-2012; Majority of material found within 1982-2011

Sociedad Latina, Inc. records

 Collection
Identifier: M136
Overview Sociedad Latina de South Boston, a cultural, social, and recreational organization, was founded in 1968 by Jorge Rivera, David Rideout, John Carroll, and Lynn Minna to promote cultural, social, and recreational activities of the small Latino population in the South Boston neighborhood. In 1981, the organization changed its name to Sociedad Latina and moved to Tremont Street in the Mission Hill neighborhood. Since its inception, Sociedad Latina has worked with Latino youth to promote...
Dates: 1968-2007; Majority of material found within 1985-1999

Filtered By

  • Subject: Safe sex in AIDS prevention X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
AIDS (Disease) -- Massachusetts 3
AIDS (Disease) in women -- Massachusetts 3
AIDS activists -- Massachusetts 3
Health care reform -- Massachusetts 3
Safe sex in AIDS prevention -- Massachusetts 3
∨ more
AIDS (Disease) -- Massachusetts -- Boston 2
Achievement motivation in youth 2
Drug approval -- United States 2
Hispanic American teenage girls 2
Nonprofit organizations -- Massachusetts 2
Safe sex in AIDS prevention 2
Substance abuse prevention 2
Youth -- Employment -- United States 2
AIDS (Disease) -- Children and youth 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Education 1
AIDS (Disease) -- Massachusetts -- Children and youth 1
AIDS (disease) -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
AIDS activists -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Adult education -- Massachusetts 1
Benefit performances -- Massachusetts 1
Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States 1
Community development, Urban -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Community organization -- Massachusetts 1
Drop outs -- United States -- Prevention 1
Dropouts -- Prevention 1
Education, Bilingual -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Family violence -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection 1
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection 1
HIV infections 1
HIV-positive persons -- Massachusetts 1
Hispanic American students -- Massachusetts 1
Hispanic American teenage boys 1
Hispanic American youth 1
Hispanic American youth -- Education -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Hispanic American youth -- Ethnic identity 1
Hispanic American youth -- Mental health services 1
Hispanic American youth -- Social conditions 1
Hispanic Americans -- Education (Higher) 1
Hispanic Americans -- Education (Secondary) 1
Hispanic Americans -- Finance, Personal 1
Hispanic Americans -- Health and hygiene 1
Hispanic Americans -- Health risk assessment 1
Hispanic Americans -- Massachusetts 1
Hispanic Americans -- Services for -- Massachusetts 1
Hispanic Americans -- Services for -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Hispanic Americans -- Substance use -- Prevention 1
Human Services -- Massachusetts 1
Intravenous Drug Users -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Intravenous drug users -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Latino Americans 1
Lobbying -- Law and legislation -- Massachusetts 1
Occupational training -- United States 1
Peer counseling 1
Peer leading counseling -- United States 1
Public health -- Massachusetts 1
Recreation -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Safe sex in AIDS prevention -- Massachusetts -- Boston 1
Technology -- education 1
Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior 1
Teenage pregnancy -- Prevention 1
Teenagers -- Tobacco use -- Prevention 1
Voluntarism -- Massachusetts 1
Walk-a-thons -- Massachusetts 1
Youth -- Massachusetts 1
Youth -- Sexual behavior 1
Youth -- Tobacco use -- Prevention 1
Youth -- Tobacco use Prevention 1
Youth and violence -- Prevention 1
Youth and violence -- United States -- Prevention 1
+ ∧ less
 
Language
Spanish; Castilian 3
 
Names
ACT UP / Boston 1
ACT UP Boston (Organization) 1
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts 1
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, Inc. 1
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP / Boston) 1