Patrick OâConnell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art
As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including âDay Without Artâ and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon.
Patrick OâConnell, the founding director of Visual AIDS, in his apartment in New York in 1994, wearing the red ribbon that became an international symbol of AIDS advocacy.Credit.Thomas McGovern/Getty Images
May 3, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET
Patrick OâConnell, who as the founding director of Visual AIDS, an advocacy group that supports artists living with the disease, helped shatter the stigma surrounding AIDS in the 1990s with awareness campaigns including the ubiquitous red ribbon, died on March 23 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 67.
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The pioneering media site LatinoRebels.com, founded in 2011 by Julio Ricardo Varela ’90, criticized a Coors Brewing Company advertising campaign for linking Puerto Ricans to drunkenness; the ads were pulled. It published video of Puerto Rican independence supporters burning an American flag to protest an island visit by President Barack Obama an act that LatinoRebels.com found “disgraceful.” And Varela himself opposed a gossipy, homophobic puppet called La Comay, a modern fixture on Puerto Rican television, and promoted a social media campaign that helped push the doll off the air.
Then comprised of Varela and 20 bloggers (mostly his friends), the hub was modeled after
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J.P. Donleavy at his home in Levington Park House. (Photo: Noel Shrine) By Noel Shrine, Contributor
At 89, J.P. Donleavy celebrated 60 years of his best-selling cult-classic, The Ginger Man. At his countryside retreat near Mullingar, he spoke to Noel Shine about his extraordinary life and the novel that gave rise to his notoriety all those years ago.
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J.P. Donleavy first came to prominence at a time in the 20th century when to be a novelist had a certain cachet. An era when television, pop music, and the virtual world of the internet had yet to be subsumed into the culture. A more innocent time when the church-state axis held sway over the moral compass in much the same way the humanist brigade do now. It was a far-off land, where to utter the word “nipple” was considered taboo and “balloons,” positively inflammatory. It was against this backdrop that a loose affiliation of young, Irish writers converged on late 1940s Dublin to form wha
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