Via press release from the LGBT Center in Los Angeles:
The Center is offering on-the-ground support for the pioneering event organizers. A staff member from our AIDS/LifeCycle fundraiser ( seven-day bike ride from SF to L.A.) is in China, helping event organizers navigate dozens of logistical details. And Brian Newkirk, the spouse of one of our board members, has raised thousands of dollars and will participate in the walk" This Saturday, Oct. 13, graduates of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Emerging Leaders Program—an international leadership program that brings some of China’s best and brightest LGBT activists to L.A. for intensive internships—are taking on their most ambitious initiative yet. These activists, who are on the vanguard of the LGBT movement in China, are organizing the country’s first AIDS Walk, which will take place on the iconic Great Wall! About 100 people will come together to take part in the walk, which is the highest-profile in a series of events designed to fight HIV/AIDS. The Center is offering on-the-ground support for the pioneering event organizers. A staff member from our AIDS/LifeCycle fundraiser ( seven-day bike ride from SF to L.A.) is in China, helping event organizers navigate dozens of logistical details. And Brian Newkirk, the spouse of one of our board members, has raised thousands of dollars and will participate in the walk.
More info
is here (if you read Chinese.)
Labels: activism, China, HIV/AIDS
