As the number of deaths soared, gay men and gay organizations redirected their energies. Many gay people who had never participated in gay rights efforts were motivated to join the fight against AIDS. New organizations joined existing ones to provide care, conduct AIDS-education programs, and fight discrimination. One new organization: the Gay Men’s Health Crisis(GMHC) in New York City became a very successful nonprofit, voluntary organization in terms of education, prevention and care and became the largest nongovernmental AIDS organization in the country and the world. The focus of this research is providing evidence of how the GMHC is dealing with the funding, complex gay community culture and also seeking the answer why GMHC became the largest gay organization in the nation.
