World AIDS Day in NYC

DAY WITH ART Works by Todd Yaeger are a part of “Men Loving Men: Images of Love, Lust & Longing”

If you think that HIV/AIDS is no longer a gay issue, just take a look at the statistics: In this country, men who have sex with men account for the only risk group in which new HIV infections are increasing. And in our city, new HIV infections are rising among men who have sex with men—especially those who are black and hispanic and under 30. Ponder it all on Tuesday 1 at one of many World AIDS Day events in the city.

Framing AIDS 2009
This multidisciplinary presentation features an exhibit and performance series, a discussion with AIDS activists, and film screenings. Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows–Corona Park (718-592-9700). Sun 29–Dec 20. See It’s Here, It’s Queer

“Men Loving Men: Images of Love, Lust & Longing”
Tonight includes an exhibit of works by members of the Queer Men’s Erotic Art Workshop and an art boutique benefiting the Center’s HIV/AIDS Youth Prevention Program. The Center, 208 W 13th St between Seventh and Greenwich Aves (212-620-7310). 6:30–9:30pm.

Out of the Darkness Vigil
Gay Men’s Health Crisis joins forces with other sponsors, including the Keith Haring Foundation, to host this vigil, candlelight procession and reading of names of people lost to AIDS. It concludes with speakers and performers including Hector Xtravaganza. Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan, 164 W 100th St at Amsterdam Ave (212-222-7045). 6pm.

Two Men Talking
Columbia University’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs presents a free performance of this play, directed by Dan Milne, which concerns homophobia, racism and HIV/AIDS. Miller Theatre, 2960 Broadway at 116th St (212-854-7799). 7pm.

World AIDS Day Interfaith Service
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Manhattan performs at this prayer event. St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, 116 Sixth Ave between Park and Sterling Pl. Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-783-3132). 7pm.

World AIDS Day Mass at Church of St. Francis Xavier
Sponsored by the LGBT and Young Adults Ministries, this service will take up a collection for God’s Love We Deliver. Xavier High School chapel, 30 W 16th St at Sixth Ave (212-627-2100). 7:30pm.

World AIDS Day Vigil
Episcopal Response to AIDS hoists candles—and then cocktails, at a post-vigil reception. Christ and Saint Stephen’s Church, 120 W 69th St between Broadway and Columbus Ave (212-787-2755). 6:30pm.

“You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real): The Work of Robert Blanchon,”
An exhibit of art by Blanchon, felled by AIDS a decade ago, opens with a World AIDS Day reception. Fales Library, NYU, 70 Washington Square South at LaGuardia Pl (212-998-2596). 6:30pm.

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