Charles Nelson

Chicago, Illinois

Since 1989, when Charles helped to found the Minority Outreach Intervention Project (M.O.I.P.), he has worked on HIV-prevention programs for same-gender-loving men of color. Always self-identifying as gay, he developed a "down low" social categorization that has helped in devising new prevention programs for such men. Charles has dedicated his life to the health of African American same-gender-loving (SGL) men and women.