The US is slashing HIV/Aids funding. A ‘steady drumbeat’ of activists stands at the ready (opens in new tab)

Original organizers, joined by new wave, are demanding the government not undo four decades of progressOn a warm evening in June, hundreds of people holding candles marched toward the Stonewall Inn in New York City, the birthplace of the US LGBTQ+ rights movement. Once they arrived, they all dropped to the ground – on the sidewalk and in the roadway – and put their backs against the pavement. The Aids rally, marking 45 years since the first reported cases, ended the way many have since the 19...