This is the final 50 years in 50 weeks of the News section looking back at the Bay Area Reporter's half-century of covering the LGBTQ community. The Arts section's finale commemorates the paper's historic 50th anniversary issue of April 1, 2021 and the News section is highlighting the paper's June 3 issue that marks 40 years of the AIDS epidemic. Stories included a look at the National AIDS Memorial Grove, long-term survivors, the region's Getting to Zero efforts, housing for HIV-positive people, and San Francisco's response to the epidemic over the years, among other articles. Coincidentally, just this week activists held a rally outside San Francisco City Hall to demand an increase in funding in the city's budget to recommit to fighting HIV/AIDS, as the COVID pandemic has resulted in what some demonstrators called a "lack of attention" to the disease. Suffice to say, AIDS is not over, and disparities continue to exist, especially for Black and Brown people and members of the transgender community.
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