OCTOBER
12 – U2’s Bono and Oprah Winfrey go on a shopping spree on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile to promote the launch of (Product) Red, which supports The Global Fund. (2006)
Bono and Oprah WinfreyInstagram/RED
15 - National Latinx HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
19 - Pop star Miley Cyrus becomes the latest celebrity spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics’ Viva Glam makeup line, which raises money to help people living with HIV. (2014)
Miley Cyrus’ MAC Cosmetics’ Viva Glam adMAC Cosmetics
NOVEMBER
16 - Nan Goldin organizes Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, an exhibition at Artists Space of New York artists responding to the AIDS crisis. (1989)
Nan GoldinYouTube/PBS NewsHour
23 - The film version of Rent, the award-winning musical about bohemians struggling with life, love and AIDS in New York City’s East Village neighborhood, opens in the United States. (2005)
“Rent” posterWikipedia
27 - The United Nations announces that, for the first time, about half of adults living with HIV worldwide are women. (2002)
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