Reggie Williams
Cincinnati, April 29, 1951 - Amsterdam, February 7, 1999 Black Gay AIDS Activist Co-Founder and Executive Director (1988-1994) National Task Force on AIDS Prevention (NTFAP) April 29, 2021 We celebrated Reggie 70! On the new website www.reggiewilliams.net you'll find the link to the recorded Zoom Event! Please join the Facebook group #REGGIE70 CONNECTION A new FB group as a connection point, to make plans to CELEBRATE and PERPETUATE the SPIRIT of REGGIE WILLIAMS for his 70TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY  The Reggie Williams Exhibit on Facebook - Become a fan!  2021 NEW WEBSITE www.reggiewilliams.net 2020  To Make the Wounded WholeThe African American Struggle against HIV/AIDSBy Dan Royles(...) Despite the lack of media attention to AIDS in Black communities, by the middle 1980s a small but growing number of African Americans knew firsthand that AIDS was not just a white gay disease. African American medical professionals such as Rashidah Hassan, a nurse and infectious disease control specialist in Philadelphia, or Pernessa Seele, an immunologist at Harlem Hospital, had seen Black people with AIDS come through their hospital doors who did not fit media stereotypes. The members of Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD) lost the group’s founder, Charles Angel, to AIDS in 1986. Reggie Williams, the African American executive director of the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention (NTFAP), received his own diagnosis of AIDS-related complex in 1986 as well. (...)Remember the Helpers: Reggie WilliamsIn
honor of June’s pride month celebrations and the recent Black Lives
Matter protests, we are honoring the life of a black, gay, AIDS
activist, Reggie Williams. El Wilson JULY 27, 2020 2016 Finally: Reggie's name has been engraved at the AIDS Memorial Grove at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco!  2016 
 Commemorating Reggie WilliamsEditorial by Phill Wilson (2011)
This week, I'm thinking about my friend Reggie Williams, who passed away 12 years ago on the date that now marks Black AIDS Awareness Day > ...  The
Black AIDS Institute is a national "think tank" focused on addressing
HIV/AIDS among African Americans and those of African descent through
policy, advocacy, communications, training, and model program
development. No matter how you look at it, Black people bear the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in America today:
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Reggie Williams Exhibit
- a loving tribute to Reggie - “Our mission is to share the legacy of Reggie Williams as a role model in the struggle against the AIDS epidemic, to create more understanding for the life of people with HIV/AIDS and to inspire, empower and motivate people in the ongoing fight against AIDS.” Curators Wolfgang Schreiber and Julie Potratz “Displays that honor the lives and works of people with HIV/AIDS are much needed and crucial to continuing a united front against the disease.” Watch "Yours in the Struggle, Reggie"
 Questions, comments, or if you are interested in a display of the Reggie Williams Exhibit or If you'd like to support the project please contact curator Wolfgang Schreiber |
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