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World AIDS Day Commemoration

By Noel Alumit December 1: World AIDS Day
Honoring Those 25 Years Old and Younger.
Los Angeles-This year marked the 25th anniversary of AIDS. Twenty-five years ago a virus called Gay Related Immune Defiency (GRID), dubbed the "gay cancer," made its way onto the national spotlight. GRID would later be renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and go on to kill millions of people worldwide. December 1, World AIDS Day, is meant to observe the devastating global impact of the disease.

The Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT), Southern California's largest provider of AIDS services to the Asian and Pacific Islander communities, will observe World AIDS Day in a very unique way. APAIT is acknowledging the generation in which AIDS has always been a fact of life: youth 25 years and younger.

"This generation has never known life without AIDS," said APAIT's Executive Director Jury Candelario. "We must work hard to eradicate AIDS and HIV so that future generations will someday know a world without AIDS."

APAIT will be working with GAMeBoi, the eighteen and over, gay, Asian nightclub at Rage Restaurant and Bar in West Hollywood.

APAIT's World AIDS Day will be on Friday, December 1st, 2006 beginning at 8:30pm. Admission to GAMeBoi is free until 9:30. $7 admission begins at 9:30; $12 at 10:30pm. GAMeBoi at Rage is located at 8911 Santa Monica Blvd. (cross street is San Vicente), West Hollywood, CA 90069. For more information, call: 213-553-1899.