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I’m an HIV positive gay man in recovery from drug addiction. What’s not to love?
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HIV in the Black Community: Tell the Story Right
Writer Craig Washington (For the first time, the words I am posting on My Fabulous Disease are not my own. This piece is from Craig Washington, whom I have known since our [...]
The Global HIV Community is Getting a Divorce
A protest against AIDS2020 being held in San Francisco. (Sean Black for A&U) The breaking point has been reached. After months of activism that has failed to convince the International AIDS Society (IAS) [...]
Ryan White Confab: Trump’s New HIV/AIDS Council is a Bad Joke
“A Trump appointee walks into an AIDS conference” sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke, doesn’t it? Just wait until you hear the punchline. It’ll kill you. The sight of the Health and Human [...]
Drag Taught Me What It Means to be a Man
The musty gym bag stays in my closet, ironically enough. Inside, a crumpled black wig fights for space with a sequined dress, heels, a string of fake pearls and a bag of make-up. After more [...]
Once, When We Were Heroes
Richard King and Emil Matzner, 1982 My brother Richard smiles a lot. He has an easy laugh. But there was a time, years ago, when he held a poisonous drink in his hands [...]
‘The Stigma Experience’ Made Me Relive My HIV Test. It Wrecked Me.
Remembering the moment in March of 1985 when I learned I was HIV positive is difficult. I speak and write about it often, but the actual emotions aren’t easy to access. I know it was [...]
