HIV/AIDS
The José Gutiérrez Archives reflects the history of Latino HIV/AIDS activism. By the late 1980s, a small group of organizations, community leaders, and LGBTQ activists were organizing in response to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Washington, DC’s Latino community. In the nation’s capital, HIV/AIDS affected the LGBTQ Latino community disproportionately. By the 1990s, numerous grassroots organizations began providing for the local community’s needs: education, medical care, mental health, food, and shelter.
Over time, organizations such as La Clínica del Pueblo, Salud Inc, Whitman-Walker Health, ENLACE, GELAAM, NMAC, NAPWA, LLEGO, the DC Government, Washington Free Clinic, Grupo Platiquemos, Centro Juvenil Empodérate, Casa Ruby, Casa Angie, Latin American Youth Center, NOVA Salud Inc, Proyecto Impacto, and other agencies created bilingual prevention campaigns and delivered a wide range of HIV/AIDS services.
Latino queer culture was embedded in all these efforts. An essential part of the history of HIV/AIDS activism are fundraisers and other forms of philanthropic activism such as drag shows and pageants, poetry readings, health fairs, parties, protests, and parades.
Name: 1993 National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, The Name Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC.
Date: April 25, 1993.
Place: Washington, DC.
Description: Members of the Latino LGBTQ community participated at the Name Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC.
Photographer: Jose Gutierrez.
Jose Gutierrez Collection.
Name: Entre Nosotros of the GWU.
Date: July 2010.
Place: Washington, DC.
Description: Dr. Maria Cecilia Zea, professor at the George Washington University, founded the Latino HIV/AIDS research project “Entre Nosotros”.
Photographer: Jose Gutierrez.
Jose Gutierrez Collection.
Name: Thanksgiving dinner at NOVA Salud.
Date: November 2015.
Place: NOVA, Salud in VA.
Description: The HIV/AIDS education and prevention team of NOVA Salud organized a Thanksgiving dinner. Thank you to Ignacio Aguirre and the team of NOVA Salud.
Photographer: Jose Gutierrez.
Jose Gutierrez Collection.
Name: Christmas Party 2019 at the Centro Juvenil Empoderate.
Date: December 2019.
Place: Washington, DC.
Description: Centro Juvenil Empoderate of LCDP organized a Christmas Party.
Photographer: Jose Gutierrez.
Jose Gutierrez Collection.
Name: 1993 National March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, The Name Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington, DC.
Date: April 25th, 1993.
Place: Washington, DC.
Description: Moises Agosto, Larry Kramer and members of Act Up protesting outside the Washington Capitol during the 1993 National March.
Photographer: Jose Gutierrez.
Jose Gutierrez Collection.
