Black AIDS Institute

Our church has had an HIV/AIDS Ministry since the beginning of the epidemic. We run a halfway house, we provide medications, we minister to families who are affected and infected, and we run workshops on safe sex. We talk about it right from the pulpit.

To address HIV and AIDS, we have to widen our scope and undo some of our traditional morals that have kept us bound. It seems to me the most earnest Christians would at least want their children to stay alive long enough to be saved.

I saw a lack of representation of gay people of color in entertainment media. So I stopped waiting around for Hollywood to decide to portray our community and I made a series on my own terms that explores who we are as black gay men.

Bishop T. D. Jakes appeals to black churches around the nation to join a unified strategy to deal with the pandemic of HIV/AIDS in the black community.

Whether at the local village level or as a part of the national plans, there are countless stories of Africans using whatever they have to fight this disease and to save themselves. But where are our leaders in the United States?