About 50 ladies received free services and caught up with old friends at the South End center's annual Day of Beauty.
Tracy Hayes went shopping Thursday afternoon at the Boston Living Center. And she didn’t even spend any money. She also got a free massage, had her makeup done, made a dream catcher, and was one of about 50 women who got a chance to relax and rejuvenate as part of the center’s annual Day of Beauty. A South End community resource center for people with HIV/AIDS, the Boston Living Center worked with volunteers to offer everything from a clothing drive and hair and makeup services, to arts and crafts, acupuncture, Reiki, a smoothie station, gift bags, raffle prizes and delicious food. With males making up about 75 percent of the center's membership (a statistic that is not representative of the virus itself), the event is a great way to …
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The annual vigil at the Cyclorama on World AIDS Day entered its 20th year Thursday.
Kurt Reynolds can still vividly remember going to work for the AIDS Action Committee in 1984. “At the time, our residents were dying every six weeks,” said Reynolds, who found housing for people with AIDS. Reynolds remembers living on Appleton Street in the South End, and he remembers seeing no fewer than 20 of his neighbors die from the syndrome. Now Reynolds, a fifty-something artist living in South Boston, is afraid that the horribly destructive nature of the syndrome, so evident during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early 1990s, is being lost on younger generations. “They don’t have any of the visuals,” he said, “don’t have any of the associations that someone my age would have.” However, Reynolds is hopeful that events such as …
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