Medical Experts Recall the AIDS Crisis at the Maltz Museum

Wed 12/20 @ 7PM

It’s hard to remember now, at a time when AIDS can be managed like diabetes so that an individual can live a normal health span, that the disease was once a virtual death sentence. It swept through gay communities in the ’80s and early ’90s, taking out an entire generation of men in fields such as theater, art and fashion, and claiming high-profile victims such as Rock Hudson, Liberace and Freddie Mercury of Queen.

It was also considered a stigma at a time when many gay men felt safer in the closet. In the mid ’90s, treatments emerged that kept the disease at bay. But in the meantime AIDS and the public/political response to it whipped up a firestorm of activism.

As part of its programming around its current exhibit Beyond Chicken Soup: Jews and Medicine in America, the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage is presenting a discussion on the topic “Recalling the AIDS Crisis.”

HIV/AIDS/hepatitis C researcher at the Cleveland Clinic Dr. Leonard Calabrese and Dr. Michael Lederman, co-director of the Center for AIDS Research and principal investigator for the AIDS Clinical Trails Unit, will co-present a look at how the AIDS crisis evolved over the years.

Tickets are $12, $6 for Maltz Museum members.

Maltz Museum

Beachwood, OH 44122

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