{"id":145,"date":"2012-07-01T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2013-05-18T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T13:07:00","slug":"july-is-national-hiv-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/01\/july-is-national-hiv-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"July is National HIV Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start by taking the pledge to end HIV in America; click <a title=\"Petition to End HIV in America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/984\/388\/940\/\" target=\"_blank\">here to sign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you can make it to Washington, DC in the latter part of the month, you can attend the <a title=\"AIDS 2012 (XIX International Conference)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aids2012.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">XIX International AIDS Conference<\/a> on July 22nd &#8211; 27th, marking its first occurrence in the US in 22 years. \u00a0 <a title=\"Elton John keynote speaker July 23 at AIDS Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/ejaf.org\/2012\/06\/793\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elton John will be the keynote speaker<\/a> on July 23rd. \u00a0And there are plenty of related cultural events being presented in the weeks around the conference.\u00a0 Click <a title=\"AIDS 2012 Program\" href=\"http:\/\/pag.aids2012.org\/PAGHome.aspx?tab=6\" target=\"_blank\">here for a list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best things listed is the <a title=\"Arena Stage presents &quot;The Normal Heart&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arenastage.org\/shows-tickets\/the-season\/productions\/the-normal-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arena Stage<\/a>&#8216;s presentation of Larry Kramer&#8217;s play &#8220;The Normal Heart&#8221; from June 8th through July 29th. <!--more-->I was lucky enough to catch this on Broadway last year and it is one outstanding piece of activist drama.\u00a0 If you lived through the early years of the AIDS crisis &#8211; the loss of beloved friends and the development of ACT UP!, it will bring back some powerful memories and inspire you to carry on with the fight.\u00a0 I urge you to attend a performance this month &#8211; especially if you have never before experienced this play.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Normal-Heart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-151\" title=\"The Normal Heart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/The-Normal-Heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start by taking the pledge to end HIV in America; click here to sign. If you can make it to Washington, DC in the latter part of the month, you can attend the XIX International AIDS Conference on July 22nd &#8211; 27th, marking its first occurrence in the US in 22 years. \u00a0 Elton John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","category-theater","tag-aids-2012-conference","post_format-post-format-image","three-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluesunglassesproject.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}