The city's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community painted walls outside Sion Hospital and the Mumbai District Aids Control Society at Wadala, recently, as reported in this paper. This queer art project had, at its heart, the objective of spreading awareness about living a life of dignity sans discrimination for HIV-affected people.

The initiative was a continuation of World Aids Week, a seven day programme by the queer community taking off from World AIDS Day which fell on December 1. The painting project was part of a slew of events that focused on the disease, which still has to shake off its shroud of silence and shame.While the AIDS cause is associated with a lot of activism, and is supported by global celebrities, for those living with the disease, life is far from glamorous.