World AIDS Day in Long Beach

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Loved ones who died from HIV-AIDS were remembered during the 2018 World AIDS Day event in Long Beach at Bluff Park on Dec. 1, 2018.

Photo: Michael Buitron. For more than 30 years, the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — among others — have used December 1 as a day to remember those who have died from HIV/AIDS.

This year in Long Beach, we have to set aside the traditions of the reading of the names at St. Mary Medical Center or the candlelight walk from The Long Beach LGBTQ Center due to COVID-19.

Instead, we will have a self-guided walk from Harvey Milk Park to the Lions Lighthouse at Rainbow Lagoon. For those who make it to the lighthouse, they will have a chance to write remembrances, and read