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After a Fire and Brimstone Warning, Queer Man Finds Solace in Lauryn Hill and...
. . In Dusty Childers’s hometown of Gaffney, South Carolina, a hospice nurse named Gloria stood out – elegant wardrobe, sweet disposition, and down to earth attitude. So it came as a surprise to...
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HIV/Aids Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years, When We Have Several...
By Ronald C. Desrosiers, University of Miami Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a...
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The Grief of Small Things Breaking
[1989] It’s not just a shoelace but the grief of small things breaking Together we bought the shoes they went with the suit the ties the bold striped socks I wore them in an office life which like the...
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Freddie Mercury’s Legacy
When I’m dead I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. — Freddie Mercury As we celebrate Men’s Health Month in November and then World AIDS day on December 1, I can’t help...
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Podcast Season 3, Episode 3 HIV/Aids Activism: Interview and Stories by Jay...
. . Jay Blotcher is a longtime writer, journalist and activist, and was an early member of ACT UP. From his early days as a towel boy at a gay bathhouse to his later years as an activist in the...
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Spreading HIV, the Virus That Causes Aids, Is Against the Law in 37 States –...
By Robin Lennon-Dearing, University of Memphis Despite the fact that HIV is now a treatable medical condition, the majority of U.S. states still have laws on the books that criminalize exposing other...
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The ABCs of STIs [Video]
. . With over 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections every year, it’s more important than ever that your students get the facts. Real young people and a specialist in teen sexual...
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‘Scarred for Life: TV in the 1980s’ – A Review
By Eoghan Lyng The eighties. Depending on your persuasion, it was either Reagan and riches, or astrology and AIDS. The bands who made it from the seventies either compromised their sound or personnel...
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New HIV Injection Arrives in Brazil and South Africa
By Inter Press Service The new long-acting pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) treatment “could have a revolutionary impact, improving options and making HIV prevention a more viable option for more...
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The Mystery of the Coffee Grinds
My name is Shari, but it’s pronounced Sherry,” she said over coffee. “Really?” I said. “My former father-in-law’s eighth wife is named Shari.” “Are you serious?! Eight wives?” she said. And so it...
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Why It’s a Must to Overcome the Burdens of Past Traumas
It’s important to give thanks for the blessings and opportunities that God has afforded us (which is a phenomenal thing); and realize how much our past traumas have shaped and molded our way of...
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Laura Gassner Otting: One Speech Away From Empowering Others
By Bryan Wish Laura Gassner Otting is a professional motivational keynote speaker and Washington Post best-selling author who helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck” in their...
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Quit Your Job, Go Home and Prepare to Die: Surviving the Aids Epidemic
By Nicole Naimer Allan Carpenter, as told to Nicole Naimer At 14, I thought there was something wrong with me. I had a girlfriend, I liked her company, but there was something physical that wasn’t...
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Monkeypox: Déjà VU All Over Again
Covid and its variants have yet to disappear, and now Monkeypox – a new outbreak of a virus that can be transmitted during sex – makes its dramatic entrance. And if that wasn’t bad enough, its first...
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Financial Band Aids Are Nice, Cures Are Better
By Elizabeth Mulholland Canadians are suffering from an acute affordability crisis and governments are taking welcome steps to relieve some of their immediate financial pain. Don’t think for a minute...
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Life Moves Pretty Fast: Why Gen-X “Got it” Before the Rest of You
Look, we have heard all the jokes. We know how you talk about us. And now you are saying there might never be a Gen-X President (as if Donald Trump did some sort of credit to his generation in that...
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Pink Triangle: The Importance Of Queer Visibility, Past And Present
Recently, I sat on my couch, watching my favorite TV show, RuPaul’s Drag Race (specifically the UK edition, there are so many versions now). Every episode, the Queens walk the runway in resplendent...
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Activism to Defeat HIV/AIDS Must Continue
This moving quote from Larry Kramer’s play, The Normal Heart, came to mind as I watched again the film “The Dallas Buyers Club,” portraying the early years of the HIV/AIDS crisis, a time when we...
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After Being Called the F-Word at a Straight Wedding, Gay Man Immerses Himself...
. . As a musician in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Marc knew he had to be very conscious of the tone of his voice and how he acted, lest anyone in the audience suspect that he might be gay. Never...
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More Gay and Bisexual Men Can Donate Blood as Donor Eligibility Policy...
By Rachel Crumpler By Rachel Crumpler State Health and Human Services Secretary Kody Kinsley volunteered at blood drives before he was old enough to donate. Then he was a regular donor in high school...
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