New York, NY — On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2025 AIDS advocacy organizations, elected officials, leaders in the fight to end AIDS and activists gathered at the New York City AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle (76 Greenwich Ave, Manhattan) to hold a rally, demonstration and march denouncing the Trump Administration’s deadly budget cuts, and authoritarian attacks on free speech, assembly and protest – bedrocks of our country that were used by AIDS activists in the 80s and 90s to save millions of lives at home and abroad.
Invited Speakers:
- Eric Sawyer (ACT UP)
- Ivy Kwan Arce (ACT UP/TAG)
- Valerie Reyes Jimenez (Housing Works)
- Reginald T Brown (VOCAL-NY)
- NY State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal
- NYC Councilmember Alexa Avilés
- NY Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal
- NY Assemblymember Tony Simone
Speakers brought attention to cuts to global AIDS funding that are fueling mass death and spread of HIV abroad, domestic cuts that will shorten lives and increase sickness, poverty, and hunger, along with Executive Orders and public threats meant to silence opposition.
The event also featured the annual Reading of the Names of people lost to AIDS, a tradition started by Housing Works in the 1990s.
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