2012 Annual Report & Review

Life at 30 Years 2012 Annual Report & Review HIV is Ageless. Get Tested. Race/Ethnicity Race/Ethnicity Race/Ethnicity Age Range Gender ourRace/Ethnicity CLients Age≤ 29Range GenderFemale30 Years of GmhC Race/EthnicityBlack/African Letter from the Ceo and Board Chair Hispanic American 33% 33.3% White 26% 25.4% ≤29 Female Black/African Hispanic 27.5% American 33% 33.3% Race/Ethnicity White Age26% Range Gender25.4% 27.5% 30–49January 1982. Dear Friends, ≤29 Female Black/African Hispanic Asian 47% Male American 33% 33.3% White2.3% 30–4926% 25.4%73.9% Black/African 27Asian.5% 47% One hundred twenty-oneMale gay men in California and New It is with great pride and Other2.3% Hispanic 33% American ≥50 York City have 73.9%died from two rare diseases: Kaposi’s pleasure that we present this Black/African 4.1% 30–49 32.8% Other 27% Transgender Hispanic 33% Asian Male American 4.1% ≥547%0 sarcoma, a cancer, and0.7% Pneumocystis pneumonia. The report on GMHC’s thirtieth year 32.8% 2.3% 27% 73.9% Transgender Black/African Centers for Disease Control0.7% and Prevention expresses alarm; to you. This anniversary is a Other WhiteHispanic 27% 33% American ≥50 4.1% data supports the emergenceTransgender of an epidemic. There are milestone by any measure, but 32.8% 27% White 27% Sexual Orientation no tests. BoroughThere is of no Residence evident0.7% cause. The single certainty is particularly because thirty years BisexualSexual Orientation mortality.Borough of Residence span a generation. And in the 7.8% Heterosexual White 27% Bisexual 32.2% Information is scarce and the medical community is in Asian 4% tradition of wisdom handed Lesbian Bronx 7.8% Heterosexual Other 2% 1.4% Sexual Orientation32.2% disarray; Boroughsome doctors of Residence and14.2% epidemiologists dismiss early Asian 4% down from one generation to Lesbian Bronx Other 2% 1.4%Bisexual morbidity reports as “rumors.”14.2% Others fear the worst, a coming another, we honor our past as Gay Heterosexual 7.8% Prefer not Manhattan 48.4% 32.2% plague in a community already underserved, understudied, AsianAge R 4%ange we depart from it, and prepare LesbianGay to identify 45.0% Bronx Other 2% Prefer not Manhattan 48.4%1.4% 10.2% and excluded from mainstream14.2% American society. Age Range for our future emboldened by to identify 45.0% Queens Gay 10.2% Six gay men and their friends11.8% gather in Larry Kramer’s the lessons we’ve learned. Prefer not Manhattan >=50 27% 48.4% Queens Age Range to identify apartment to develop45.0% a response and a plan. <=29 26% 11.8% >=50 27% 10.2% These are our beginnings:Brooklyn two rooms in a West Village As the leaders of GMHC, we have the best seats in the proverbial house to watch our 21.7% Queens <=29 26% HIV Status townhouse; a hotlineBrooklyn consisting of a single volunteer and an colleagues — courageous, dedicated, and skilled—serve our communities with compassion 11.8% >=50 27% HIV Status Staten Island 21.7% and perseverance. And we have the honor of seeing a new generation of volunteers take up answering1.0% machine; and a group of activists who refused to <=29 26% HIV Positive HIV Negative Staten Island Brooklyn arms in the fight against AIDS alongside some who have been here, working tirelessly, for allow their community to becomeOutside a NYcrucibleC of fear and death. 51.5% 35.2% 1.0% 21.7% HIV Positive HIV Status HIV Negative 6.3% over twenty years. Their courage and resolveOutside endure NYC as the single greatest 51.5% 35.2% Staten Island source1.0% of inspiration for the thousands6.3% of Gay Men’s Health HIV Positive HIV Negative HIV has changed over these thirty years, from a swift and fatal adversary to a creeping and Crisis volunteers, donors, andOutside staff NYwhoC have fought on the 51.5% Unknown/35.2% Race/Ethnicity insidious menace, one that threatens not only individuals medically, but whole communities Unreported front lines of this epidemic for thirty6.3% years. Their perseverance, Unknown/13.3% Race/Ethnicity socioeconomically. And so we, too, have changed. We began as an agency of reaction, Race/Ethnicity Age Range Gender Unreported strength, and unflinching optimism defined our first thirty 30-49 47% 13.3% responding to an epidemiological crisis. Today, we are a multi-faceted organization, diverse in years. And now,Black/African a generation on, we are a community of Race/Ethnicity ≤29 Female Unknown/ 30-49 47% Hispanic Age Range Gender American 33% every way imaginable, serving the ever evolving needs of those at risk. 33.3% White 26% 25.4% Unreported communities—a united front of allies, advocates and activists; Black/African Hispanic 27.5% ≤29 Female13.3% organizations and communityAmerican groups; 33% diverse ethnicities and 33.3% White 26% 25.4% 30-49 47% Our twenty-two member board is the largest and most active in our history; four physicians, 27.5%30–49 identities. We are bound together not by the terrifying threat of Asian 47% Male including three HIV specialists, and three GMHC clients are seated on it. Our services are 2.3% 30–49 73.9% plague, but by the persistent vision of a world free from stigma, expanding as we pursue licensure under New York State Law, Articles 31 and 32, to address Asian Black/African Other 47% Male Hispanic 33% 2.3% prejudice, and, most importantly, preventable infection. critical mental health and substance abuse treatment needs. And we have established the first American 4.1% ≥50 73.9% 32.8% Black/African 27% Transgender This year, we look back at battles won and lost; at Other 0.7% Hispanic 33% permanent endowment for the agency with an initial investment of $1 million. American 4.1% ≥50 progress we’ve made and that to which we aspire; and at 32.8% 27% Transgender 0.7% an epidemic whoseWhite 27% constant change has frightened us, These are just a few steps we’ve taken to prepare for our future. One day, when we at long challenged us, but also brought us together. The sampling of last eradicate AIDS from our world, we know that our legacy will be more than just a brave Borough of Residence White 27% Sexual Orientation GMHC’s printed materials sprinkled throughout this report is fight against a terrible disease. It will be a shining and historic example of how ordinary Bisexual 7.8% SexualHeterosexual Orientation Borough of Residence meant to give you a sense of the many ways we have faced people, united by a vision of equality and compassion, did the extraordinary: preserved life in Asian 4% Bisexual 32.2% Lesbian Bronx those fears andOther challenges 2% over the past thirty years. the face of death, cared for both the sick and the well, and, together, ended an epidemic. 1.4% 7.8% Heterosexual 14.2% 32.2% Asian 4% Lesbian Bronx We must also look forward,Other 2% to the next thirty years, Gay 1.4% 14.2% Prefer not Manhattan and to the challenges ahead—challenges we will meet by Please help us make the next generation of GMHC stronger than ever by renewing your 48.4% Age Range to identify 45.0% Gay continuing to evolve in response to the changing needs commitment to the fight against AIDS. 10.2% Prefer not Manhattan 48.4% Age Range to identify 45.0%Queens of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning Thank you for your enduring support, 10.2% 11.8% >=50(LGBTQ) 27% and HIV/AIDS communities. We look toward a future Queens <=29 26% Brooklyn 11.8% in which >=50our 27% vision of an AIDS-free generation is realized. 21.7% And we work for a future in which all lives are<=29 26%valued equally; HIV Status Brooklyn Staten Island 21.7% a future in which life and life alone is cause enough for us to HIV Status 1.0% Marjorie J. Hill, Ph.D. Myron Sulzberger Rolfe HIV Positive HIV Negative Staten Island unite, to work together, and to defeat AIDS once and for all. Outside NYC 51.5% 35.2% 1.0% CEO Chair, Board of Directors 6.3% HIV Positive HIV Negative Outside NYC 51.5% 35.2% 6.3% Unknown/ Unreported 1 13.3% Unknown/ Unreported 30-49 47% 13.3% 30-49 47% Prevention & testinG 1982–2012 Community setting testing TesTing is one of The mosT powerful communities and workplaces, denied health At dozens of special events, nightclubs, and bars, GMHC prevention tools in our arsenal. It is safe, insurance, or worse. is there, providing onsite, free, confidential rapid HIV tests, inexpensive, accurate, fast, and noninvasive. counseling, and safer-sex materials. These programs are But this was not always the case. In fact the situation was so dire, GMHC had community-level interventions where and when they’re no choice but to advise clients against being most critical. And, if there isn’t a convenient on-premises When the FDA approved a test for HIV tested for HIV—an unthinkable course today— site for our programs, our mobile testing van ensures that antibodies in 1985, it was an expensive and because of the certain discrimination and our services are only steps away. Equal parts mission and arduous process, requiring a large sample possible violence they faced. mandate, community setting testing serves to educate of blood and weeks of lab work—while the and protect the individual while lowering the whole of a Safer Sex Comics, Since the early 1990s, however, testing has 1986.

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