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HIV group throws pregnant guest out of gala for talking to LGBT protesters
Itta Englander was treated as if her time with protesters had exposed her to something terrible, like a fast-spreading virus perhaps.
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Baltimore HIV clinic tries to stop union organizing by firing workers
Chase Brexton Health Care has fired five longtime employees in an attempt to intimidate workers out of demanding better working conditions.
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The time AIDS activists used condoms to hijack the Olympic rings
It was 1995, and Atlanta was in the height of Olympic fever as the city prepared to host the 1996 Summer Games.
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Damon L. Jacobs: The Calm in the PrEP Storm
In 1977, I ran for senior class president, hoping against hope that my penchant for wearing platform shoes and fellating men in my spare time might somehow get overlooked by my high school classmates in Bossier City, Louisiana. I lost that faith when my campaign signs throughout the school hallways were vandalized. As the student body arrived that morning we were greeted with the word “FAG” scrawled across the posters in red spray paint…
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Gay country singer’s video portrays gay men as sad, predatory drunks
Gay men drink too much, feel sorry for themselves, and come on to straight dudes when their girlfriends aren’t around: that’s the message from the music video of newly-minted gay country singer Steve Grand. And gay media is too busy fawning over the young stud to notice…
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The private war that killed Spencer Cox
Gay activists like Spencer Cox were consumed by AIDS for so many gruesome years that many of them were shocked, once the war abated, to see how little around them had changed. Climbing from the trenches, they saw a gay culture that must have seemed ludicrous, packed with the same drug addictions, sexual compulsions and soulless shenanigans that AIDS, in its singular act of goodwill, had arrested for a decade or so.
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I am the man my father built
Ultimately, Dad raised exactly what he valued, a man who steps up and asks stupid questions and knows that to soar you must risk the occasional, spectacular crash. On my best days I live happily as the man my father built, writing and living as an HIV positive queer for all to see and never afraid to take a risk…
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Facebook Put My Life Together Again
Today I accepted the Facebook friend request of someone I knew in high school. We haven’t spoken in more than thirty years … and God knows why she wants to befriend the scandalous queer who wore knee-high platform boots to the junior dance in our home town of Bossier City, Louisiana.
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Seven Ways to Save Money on Meds
With all the doctor appointments and wellness activities we engage in, living with HIV/AIDS can be a full-time job. And the truth is, it doesn’t pay very well. We’ve all been feeling the pinch of tough economic times. So I hope you’ll find some savings in this new video blog, “7 Ways to Save Money […]
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I’m gonna wipe that AIDS right off of my face
Several years ago, I told someone that I was HIV positive before I agreed to his invitation for a date. “Yeah, I know,” he casually replied, and then he looked a little embarrassed, as if he shouldn’t have said it. It was too late, of course; I knew exactly what he meant. He knew my HIV status because of the appearance of my face.