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The following year, in what was the then-largest, most successful AIDS fundraiser ever, AIDS Walk New York raised $ 4.15 million even as incoming GMHC board president Jeff Soref said that the number of AIDS patients was "growing so quickly that no community-based organization can keep pace" and urged
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Francisco, was where AIDS activism had begun two decades before. Within the city,
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To commemorate a "quarter-century of collective loss, struggles and triumphs in an ongoing commitment to end the AIDS epidemic," GMHC established the "Alliance 25" Principal
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Central Park, and an increasing number of local AIDS Walks in the city's suburbs and elsewhere, AIDS Walk New York continued to raise record funds (generally around $ 5 million) and attract more
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to promote the AIDS Walk on posters throughout New York City even though the celebrities would not actually be participating. The advertising worked, and more than 42,000 participants (and celebrities such as Patti LaBelle) came to
Central Park for the 2002 AIDS Walk.
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and over 50 other local AIDS service organizations. Founded in 1986, it is now the largest walkathon in the world, and the largest AIDS fundraiser in the world by participation. In 2008 the event had 45,000 participants raising $ 7.4 million.
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introduced his song "Love Don't Need a Reason" at the first AIDS Walk New York in 1986 and continued to sing the song before each AIDS Walk every year through 1993. At the 1994 AIDS Walk, following Callen's death,
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over. But it's not over." Nevertheless, 35,000 walkers participated that year, and the next year, 1998, saw a record 38,000 AIDS Walkers help GMHC reach its $ 4 million funding goal.
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