NewsPronto

 
Men's Weekly

.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus

  • Written by Daniel Baldwin Hess, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University at Buffalo
imageHIV health and support groups offered COVID-19 testing and other community services during the pandemic. iStock / Getty Images Plus

Throughout the pandemic, local neighborhoods have played a critical and well-documented role providing the health and social services necessary for American communities and businesses to survive and recover from the...

Read more: How gay neighborhoods used the traumas of HIV to help American cities fight coronavirus

More Articles ...

  1. For flood-prone cities, seawalls raise as many questions as they answer
  2. Transgender medicine – what care looks like, who seeks it out and what's still unknown: 3 essential reads
  3. The FDA’s weak drug manufacturing oversight is a potentially deadly problem
  4. Flawed data led to findings of a connection between time spent on devices and mental health problems – new research
  5. How Vladimir Putin uses natural gas to exert Russian influence and punish his enemies
  6. Biden's goal to permanently boost support for families echoes a failed Nixon proposal from 50 years ago – will it take off this time?
  7. I have city kids make comic books to create a buzz about mosquitoes and ecology
  8. What is the religious exemption to Title IX and what's at stake in LGBTQ students' legal challenge
  9. Global herd immunity remains out of reach because of inequitable vaccine distribution – 99% of people in poor countries are unvaccinated
  10. 'Upcycling' promises to turn food waste into your next meal
  11. Explorer Robert Ballard's memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in the ocean's darkest reaches
  12. White Gen X and millennial evangelicals are losing faith in the conservative culture wars
  13. The gas tax's tortured history shows how hard it is to fund new infrastructure
  14. US third parties can rein in the extremism of the two-party system
  15. Critical race theory sparks activism in students
  16. The surface of Venus is cracked and moves like ice floating on the ocean – likely due to tectonic activity
  17. What's behind the rising profile of transgender kids? 3 essential reads
  18. Why gain-of-function research matters
  19. As urban life resumes, can US cities avert gridlock?
  20. What's next for health care reform after the Supreme Court rejects ACA's most recent challenge
  21. Does outer space end – or go on forever?
  22. How to consume news while maintaining your sanity
  23. The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be
  24. 'Managed retreat' done right can reinvent cities so they're better for everyone – and avoid harm from flooding, heat and fires
  25. This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there's a chance they could be your neighbors too
  26. 4 ways to get more Black and Latino teachers in K-12 public schools
  27. Supreme Court unanimously upholds religious liberty over LGBTQ rights -- and nods to a bigger win for conservatives ahead
  28. Federal policy has failed to protect Indigenous women
  29. How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism
  30. Lighter pavement really does cool cities when it’s done right
  31. Academic tenure: What it is and why it matters
  32. Conservative hard-liner elected as Iran's next president – what that means for the West and the nuclear deal
  33. Too few women get to invent – that's a problem for women's health
  34. Young people are eager to have sex, but will post-pandemic hookups bring happiness or despair?
  35. A mix-and-match approach to COVID-19 vaccines could provide logistical and immunological benefits
  36. Being a pop star once meant baring skin – now, for artists like Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato, it's all about emotional stripping
  37. Millions are rejecting one of humanity's best weapons for saving lives: Vaccines
  38. Postal banking could provide free accounts to 21 million Americans who don't have access to a credit union or community bank
  39. What's a 100-year flood? A hydrologist explains
  40. What's the charitable deduction? An economist explains
  41. How Israel's missing constitution deepens divisions between Jews and with Arabs
  42. Nurturing dads raise emotionally intelligent kids – helping make society more respectful and equitable
  43. The first mobile phone call was 75 years ago – what it takes for technologies to go from breakthrough to big time
  44. Racial bias makes white Americans more likely to support wars in nonwhite foreign countries -- new study
  45. A court ruling on Shell's climate impact and votes against Exxon and Chevron add pressure, but it's the market that will drive oil giants to change
  46. Why nobody will ever agree on whether COVID lockdowns were worth it
  47. Biden's Supreme Court commission probably won't sway public opinion
  48. 5 ways MacKenzie Scott’s $8.5 billion commitment to social and economic justice is a model for other donors
  49. Faith still shapes morals and values even after people are 'done' with religion
  50. Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked tongues