September
1 – Sergeant Tanner White, a Marine living with HIV, posts a video on YouTube in which he asks openly gay singer-songwriter Steve Grand to the 2015 Marine Corps Ball. On September 3, Grand posts a video saying, “I accept!” (2015)
9 – Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival, by POZ founder Sean Strub is released. (2014)
“Body Counts: A Memoir of Activism, Sex, and Survival,” by POZ founder Sean Strub
12 – Buddies, the first film to deal with HIV and AIDS, is released in theaters in San Francisco. (1985)
13 – ACT UP Philadelphia’s first demonstration, held outside the Liberty Bell, calls for increased local funding for AIDS. (1987)
14 – Former Wales rugby star Gareth Thomas announces publicly that he is living with HIV. (2019)
18 – National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
27 – National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
30 – Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to be cured of HIV, dies at age 54 after a five-month battle with leukemia. Formerly known as the Berlin Patient, Brown was on antiretroviral treatment for his HIV when he was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2006. He underwent two bone marrow transplants, which used stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that blocks HIV from entering cells. The transplants led to sustained HIV remission and his cure. (2020)
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