The Lavender Effect is seeking donors to help it research and produce six to eight high-quality video interviews with people who played a key role in West Hollywood’s fight against HIV/AIDS from 1984 forward.
The campaign is part of Lavender Effect’s campaign to preserve and communicate the history of LGBTQ people, institutions and movements.
The stories will be part of a collection titled “Young City at War: Stories from West Hollywood during the AIDS Epidemic.”
A current list of potential interviewees for the archival collection includes Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the American physician known for the identification of AIDS; City Council member John Duran, known for successfully suing Los Angeles County for denying medication to inmates with HIV/AIDS, and Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world’s largest non-governmental HIV/AIDS service organization. With sufficient funding, additional people will be filmed.
The Lavender Effect is hoping to raise $10,000 to match a grant offered by the city of West Hollywood to research and produce 6-8 high quality interviews. The project will be showcased at the West Hollywood Library in a new video archival collection as part of the West Hollywood 30th anniversary celebration, kicking off in October 2015. All gifts are tax-deductable.
There are multiple donor levels: $100 means your name will be included on TLE’s “Young City At War” webpage, with a donation of $250 TLE also will include your company’s logo on the webpage. With a donation of $750, the donor and his or her company will be acknowledged at the “Young City At War” installation event. A donation of $1,500 includes all previous benefits plus acknowledgement at the VIP unveiling of the West Hollywood Library installation.
Donations can be made by check to payable to “Community Partners for The Lavender Effect” with “YSAW Sponsorship” in the memo. Checks should be mailed to The Lavender Effect, 5419 Hollywood Blvd., C-777, Hollywood, CA 90027. Donors also can use a credit card to contribute online.
Two leaders in the fight against AIDS are John Heilman and John Duran. Where were the others on the current City Council?
aren’t a lot of these on the documentaries:” How to Avoid A Plague” and “We Were Here” both on Netflix