Editing GMHC (section)

===1990s===
GMHC, along with several other organizations, boycotted the 1990 International AIDS Conference in San Francisco, California in protest of the federal travel ban on people with HIV entering the United States.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-05-08 |title=Gay Men's Crisis Unit To Shun AIDS Session |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/08/nyregion/gay-men-s-crisis-unit-to-shun-aids-session.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Though representatives from GMHC did not attend the official event, they did participate in a smaller conference, for people who had boycotted, which took place simultaneously in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Gross |first1=Jane |date=1990-06-18 |title=Warily, San Francisco Braces for AIDS Forum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/18/us/warily-san-francisco-braces-for-aids-forum.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The Fox Broadcasting Company donated the proceeds from the airing of the 1992 [[The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert|Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert]] in London's [[Wembley Stadium]] to GMHC.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Watrous |first=Peter |date=1992-04-20 |title=Pop World Hears the AIDS Message |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/20/arts/pop-world-hears-the-aids-message.html |access-date=2023-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

GMHC debuted an HIV prevention subway campaign featuring gay and straight couples in 1994. GMHC admitted that the posters were "more explicit" than what they had produced in the past and featured animated condoms, lubricant and messages aimed towards sexually active youth, with the slogan "Young! Hot! Safe!"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Navarro |first=Mireya |date=January 14, 1994 |title=Group Begins New AIDS Ads in Subways |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/14/nyregion/group-begins-new-aids-ads-in-subways.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Staff at GMHC later said that the organization received bomb threats specifically citing the campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bromwich |first=Jonah |date=August 9, 2019 |title=Sex and the Subway Ad |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/style/sex-subway-ads-new-york.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

GMHC employee James A. Fielding sued the organization alleging discrimination in 1994.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Navarro |first=Mireya |date=February 5, 1994 |title=Worker Claims Discrimination by AIDS Group |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/05/nyregion/worker-claims-discrimination-by-aids-group.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Fielding sought $1.7 million in compensatory and punitive damages, claiming that he was not given a fair chance to apply for a role within GMHC, as leadership was afraid that, due to his HIV-positive status, he would have to call in sick.

A 1995 ''New York Times'' report detailing the FBI keeping a record of activist group ACT UP also claimed that the FBI kept a small file dedicated to GMHC.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David |date=May 16, 1995 |title=F.B.I. Kept Watch on AIDS Group During Protest Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/16/nyregion/fbi-kept-watch-on-aids-group-during-protest-years.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

Broadway star Bernadette Peters made her Carnegie Hall debut with a fundraiser for the organization.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 9, 1996 |title=Bernadette Peters in Carnegie Hall Benefit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/09/arts/bernadette-peters-in-carnegie-hall-benefit.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

GMHC began offering HIV testing and prevention counseling at its offices in 1997, at the David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education after a $2.5 million gift from the [[David Geffen]] Foundation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David |date=August 10, 1995 |title=Gay Men's Group to Start H.I.V. Testing Program |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/10/nyregion/gay-men-s-group-to-start-hiv-testing-program.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

In 1997 the organization moved into headquarters at the nine-story Tisch Building at 119 West 24 Street in the Chelsea neighborhood.  The building underwent a $12.5 million renovation.  It is named for [[Preston Robert Tisch]] and [[Joan Tisch]].  The couple donated $3.5 million for the project and Joan is on the GMHC board of directors.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/30/realestate/building-blocks-in-the-battle-on-aids.html|title=Building Blocks In the Battle On AIDS|first=David W.|last=Dunlap|newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 30, 1997}}</ref>

[[Weill Cornell Medical Center|Weill-Cornell Medical Center]] opened the Chelsea Center for Special Studies, in GMHC's building in 1997, in what was then described as the "first large-scale collaboration between a major New York City hospital and an AIDS social service agency."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Lynda |date=December 15, 1997 |title=Hospital Opens Clinic at AIDS Agency in Chelsea |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/15/nyregion/hospital-opens-clinic-at-aids-agency-in-chelsea.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The center offered medical services to people with HIV, many of them referred from GMHC.

[[Donna Summer]] headlined a fundraiser at [[Carnegie Hall]] that raised $400,000 for GMHC in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=P. O. Z. |date=2012-05-21 |title=Requiem for the Queen of Disco |url=https://www.poz.com/blog/donna-summer-aids |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=POZ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=GMHC News Release |url=http://www.donna-tribute.com/articles/98/dsgmhc.html |access-date=2023-12-21 |website=www.donna-tribute.com}}</ref>

GMHC supported SB4422-B, a New York state bill to track new HIV infections in New York state, breaking from a consensus against such reporting among AIDS groups in the state.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Lynda |date=January 14, 1998 |title=Albany Likely to Get Names of People with H.I.V. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/14/nyregion/albany-likely-to-get-names-of-people-with-hiv.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> In its initial statement, GMHC supported following the "same practice used for infectious diseases like syphilis and tuberculosis." In its statement, the organization did not initially say that it discouraged New York state from collecting names, though in a later clarification, it said that it supported a code-based system rather than using the names of people living with HIV.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Lynda |date=January 17, 1998 |title=AIDS Groups Opposes Use of Names in H.I.V. Reports |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/17/nyregion/aids-group-opposes-use-of-names-in-hiv-reports.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref>

In the 1990s a fundraising event on the Atlantic Ocean beach at [[Fire Island Pines, New York]] evolved into a major [[Circuit Party|circuit party]] and developed a reputation for being connected with [[unsafe sex]] and [[recreational drug use]].  Activist Spencer Cox wrote a letter to the ''New York Times'' defending the party,  which he called a "drug-free event."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cox |first=Spencer |date=August 23, 1997 |title=Drug-Free Event |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/23/opinion/l-drug-free-event-764604.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> He continued, "Perhaps if he had attended the party, he might have a better sense of how this annual celebration contributes to the fight against AIDS ... As a person with AIDS, I am comforted to know that the money raised will be used to finance needed services, and hope that G.M.H.C. will not sacrifice those programs by discontinuing the Morning Party." GMHC pulled the plug after the 1998 fundraiser after one man died on Fire Island of an overdose of the drug [[gamma hydroxy butyrate]] (GHB) the evening before the party and 21 revelers were arrested for [[drug possession]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071113020327/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_1999_Feb_2/ai_53729209 "Sunset for Morning Party on Fire Island"] ''The Advocate'' – February 2, 1999</ref>