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John S. James
John S. James (1941 - ) is a pioneering US LGBT rights activist and the editor of AIDS Treatment News, one of the first publications focused on documenting cutting-edge, science-based AIDS research and treatment for a non-technical audience. AIDS Treatment News was founded in 1986 and published until 2014. It was widely read by people living with HIV/AIDS, policymakers, clinicians, researchers, and activists. The newsletters were later collected into two volumes and published by Celestial Arts Press in Berkeley, California.

James also participated in the pre-Stonewall Annual Reminders, a gay rights group that picketed at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania every year on July 4 from 1965 to 1969 to remind Americans of the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

James won the 2019 Kiyoshi Kurimiya Award, given by Philadelphia FIGHT, a Philadelphia AIDS treatment and advocacy organization, in honor of his ground-breaking journalism. Kiyoshi Kuromiya was a Philadelphia civil rights and AIDS activist.

James graduated cum laude from Harvard College and worked as a software developer for 20 years before founding AIDS Treatment News. He later founded a website named Age Treatment News to curate and publicize scientific developments in the pursuit of a longer, healthy life.