David Gere

Los Angeles, CA

David Gere became an AIDS activist in the mid-1980s, when his friends in the San Francisco arts community began falling sick. After witnessing the profound ways in which the Bay Area dance community had intervened in the AIDS epidemic, he connected with artists in India who, similarly, were tackling their epidemic. From this came MAKE ART/STOP AIDS, an ad hoc organization that sponsors arts activism projects around the world.