Town Hall Meeting to Save Black Gay Men's Lives














Recently the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) released some daunting statistics related to the amount of new HIV infections that occur in the United States annually. Last week the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a piece about the HIV epidemic in Philadelphia. You can find that article here.

In response to the growing HIV epidemic in our community, in which a significant number of new infections in Philadelphia annually are among men who have sex with men, the BGMLC, COLOURS and House of Blahnik are sponsoring a community town hall meeting to discuss what this means to our community and to share very specific ways you can do your part to help decrease the amount of new HIV infections in Philly in the coming years. This is a serious issue in our community and it will take all of us, gay, straight, men, women and so on to work together on this.

The event will take place on Thursday November 13th, 6pm at Arch Street Methodist Church (home of Unity Fellowship's Sunday service), 55 N Broad Street. The meeting will be facilitated by Dr. Lisa Bowleg of Drexel University and there will be representatives from the health department present to answer questions you may have about their response to the epidemic and you as a community member will be provided time to talk about what we should be doing to improve our prevention efforts. I hope to see you on November 13th!