WORLD AIDS DAY “Beneath the Underground” Festival
WORLD AIDS DAY “Beneath the Underground” Festival – to benefit the Alliance for Positive Change.It’s the First Annual WORLD AIDS DAY “Beneath the Underground” FESTIVAL at the Red Eye NYC! Produced and hosted by John Pietaro & Laurie Towers of WFMU’s “Beneath the Underground” show, the Fest unites our city’s most notorious Rock ‘n’ Drag, Neo-Beat, and Punk-Jazz artists to raise funds and awareness for the Alliance for Positive Change.
-featuring-THE BAD JUDIES!!PUMA PERL BAND!ANNE HUSICK & EXIT 99!THE RED MICROPHONE!THE RUMINATORS w Patti Rothberg!-plus- special guest speakers!
The Alliance for Positive Change began as the AIDS Service Center back in 1991 as the crisis raged and bled us without mercy. Today, the organization delivers on the promise of positive change with health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and economic mobility programs that equip people to navigate systemic inequities and achieve health and well-being. Alliance primarily works with and for New York City’s Black, Hispanic/Latinx, LGBTQ+, and HIV-positive communities, as well as people who use drugs and people in recovery. https://alliance.nyc/*** “If I die of AIDS—forget burial—just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A.” – David Wojnarowicz***”AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.” – Larry Kramer***”I don’t think you should be ashamed of anybody that you know that has AIDS. You should stand as close to them as you can and help them out as much as you can. I’m a strong believer in that and that’s why I try to do that for everyone I know that has the virus.” -Marsha P. Johnson***”Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.”-Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS***“We have reached a verdict, your honor. This man’s heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.”― Tony Kushner, Millennium Approaches***“She gazed over her oxygen mask at the small, smiling Christmas tree that sat on the table behind her. Tonight, the whirling sound of the disk in the drive was a song that was sweeter than any lullaby.”― Circa24, Thomas Hardy was an Optimist: A Collection of Short Stories From the Plague Years.***”Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over. Remember that. And when that day has come and gone, there’ll be people alive on this earth — gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease all over the world, and that a brave group of people stood up and fought and, in some cases, gave their lives, so that other people might live and be free.” – Vito Russo