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How to Effectively Combat the Rising HIV Rates in our Young Black Men
Embed from Getty Images — On Valentine’s Day 2010, I was dumped twice. While one gentleman (who was already infected) told me that we could not date or ever become seriously involved because he liked...
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The Risk Always Lives – STDs and Polyamory
Embed from Getty Images — “El riesgo siempre vive” (The risk always lives) – Unknown author I received an email about poly regarding STDs. Oddly enough, this is the first one I ever got that was...
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Oh My God! He’s Wearing a G-String!? Introducing my Parents to Prince
Embed from Getty Images — At the beginning of the eighties, a new force of nature entered my home at a party for my dad, his friends and his soon to be second wife. Prince Rogers Nelson was in my home...
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Imagine My Body
Imagine My Body Imagine my body in Polaroid, a Mapplethorpe snapshot shot in the seventies looking at you in that half way of disclosure, naked crotch, bared chest, a half studded belt of leather...
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Love, AIDS, Death, and Desperation at the Louise Hay Ride
Embed from Getty Images — In honor of National HIV Long-Term Survivors Day on June 5, Queerty writer Mark S. King shares this remembrance of living in one of the epicenters of the epidemic in 1987. —...
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These Courageous HIV Advocates Will Lead the Way Against Trump in 2017
— By Mark King Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are a threat to everything HIV advocates have been fighting for during the last thirty years, and that includes access to...
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LGBTQ People Liable for Natural Catastrophes and a Total Eclipse of Reason
Embed from Getty Images The utter power and strength of the LGBTQ community allows us to control the course of hurricanes, floods, droughts, and pandemics, and thus, we get to determine who lives and...
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Ronald Reagan Coconspirator-In-Chief to Genocide
Embed from Getty Images The real Ronald Reagan forwarded policies that enormously increased the wealth gap between the very rich and the remainder of the population. He expanded the rate of people...
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uploads.288364.HIV_opportunistic_infections.pdf The windows have vanished again the glass evaporating —all you see is out through, past, forward, the tree the wall the sky shut tight with night...
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F*** You HIV and the Fear You Continue to Bring Into our Community
Some years back, I wrote a piece to the infectious and still omnipresent HIV disease. There is no logical reason for anyone to become infected. We are not dealing with logic. We are dealing with...
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The Inadvertent Grandperson
— How a politically active gay writer / poet / found-object sculptor (dog walker / French tutor / apartment painter / cat sitter / waiter / bartender, etc.) became an inadvertent grandperson, is a...
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‘I Will Hold Your Hand the Whole Way.’
“And a child shall lead them.” The Rev. Dr. Neil O’Farrell shares a nativity story to beat the rush. — She told me she’d hold the door open for me. I told her I’d be on time. She lived in a sprawling...
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Mr. Johnson, You Have AIDS
As a kid, I thought AIDS was just a joke. I know now that it’s not funny. This piece originally appeared on Lick the Fridge on October 2, 2011. AIDS is no joke. I didn’t always know that. When I was...
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MOVING PICTURES: PHILADELPHIA
PG-13, 2h 5m – Drama Now Playing on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray, DVD & Digital platforms MOVING PICTURES is a series of reviews and essays that highlight films that had a powerful impact on viewers. To...
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George H. W. Bush & AIDS
Recently, with the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, many people, including preeminent historians, remember him fondly and are virtually rushing to commit him to sainthood. Many of us,...
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Disconnecting to Reconnect
Many people experience stress, fatigue, and burnout at some point in their career. These three factors can have an impact on their ability to perform their job well and to meet the expectations...
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Baby Steps – Part II
Take a look at “Baby Steps – Part I” if you haven’t had a chance. In Aikido training, we practice randori, which involves multiple attackers coming at you, grabbing you by the arms and shoulders,...
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Sometimes All That Stands between You and Greatness Is ‘I’m Sorry.”
Disney announced that James Gunn would return to direct “Guardians of the Galaxy 3”. He had written and directed the franchise’s first two installations, “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Guardians of the...
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What I Learned About Loving My Body as a Gay Man
— Everyone has a story about their body. Some of us want to look great for the beach, to feel powerful and sexy when we’re in bed with someone, or to move easily without pain or discomfort. My body’s...
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June 27 Is National HIV Testing Day
— Washington, DC, June 26, 2019 — Every year, National HIV Testing Day is observed on June 27 to raise awareness of the importance of HIV testing and diagnosis. An estimated 1.1 million people in the...
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