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In 2015 Larry Kramer was reunited with GMHC almost thirty years after he was removed from the organization. Even after years of criticism from Kramer about many of the choices made by GMHC, Kelsey Louie, a member of GMHC reached out to Kramer. After several meetings between Kelsey and Kramer a peace offering seemed to have been reached. Kramer was invited to GMHC’s gala as a special guest and presented with their first ever lifetime achievement award. Kramer held no ill will towards the organization and was happy to be invited back. Since his first appearance Kramer has continued to attend GMHC events and has even been invited to speak at GMHC staff meetings.

GMHC continues to offer free testing for HIV and many other STIs no matter the person’s background or financial status. GMHC also does work in its community targeting people of a certain age. Having their own mobile testing unit for people who cannot make it to GMHC’s location. GMHC makes recurring trips to retirement communities testing residents there. In order to keep up with the COVID-19 global pandemic GMHC has begun offering HIV testing at home to make sure people are sticking to social distance guidelines. They have also closed their usual testing site and created an offsite location for continuing testing. The testing can take anywhere from 2-20 minutes for people to get their results back. While GMHC cannot give out HIV medications such as PrEP or PEP they can help people find options at a lower cost once they have a prescription.

During GMHC’s move into their new building they were met with discrimination from prospective landlords. Many did not understand what GMHC was and how they offered services to the community and those sick with HIV/AIDS. Even when GMHC found a place to live there were several restrictions placed upon by the landlord. A major one was that GMHC couldn’t perform any sort of medical procedures on the premises. This forced the GMHC clinic to not move along with the rest of GMHC.