Katharine Gay Mens Health Crisis #3 visit

Today I went to cocktail hour at GMHC. The GMHC is a safe haven for gay men as well as lesbian women to come, learn and express who they really are. GMHC is the owner of ‘The AIDS Walk’, at this cocktail hour we learned a lot about how to interview someone professionally. I learned how to write a list of questions and read them out in a fashion in which the person I was interviewing would not feel overwhelmed. The person I interviewed name was Jenny. Jenny was a young dark haired woman who had a very thoughtful and easily understandable way of speaking. Jenny began working at the GMHC in 2007. She started out learning about women’s health and branched in to AIDS awareness. Jenny was a very enthusiastic woman who seemed very happy that young people came in to help out work with the GMHC. I was talking to her about how in the three years she has been working at the GMHC, how AIDS and the awareness of AIDS has changed.  She told me that the way in which AIDS and the awareness of it has changed was that, with tons of campaigns which help show the risks of AIDS many people have become more interested in trying to educate themselves as well as others about AIDS and the awareness of it. I started branching out my questions about AIDS and asked her if she knew about any of the funding and how much of the money being donated is actually being given to the people who they help. I got to help out as well as asking all of these questions. I got to help Jenny and the rest of the volunteers box flyers as well as lift boxes. Even though it was not the most interesting job in the world, talking to Jenny while doing this about her job seemed to make her very happy. I felt like this visit went well and I was very happy about how my interview went.