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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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A Drag Queen Sings ‘Undetectable’ at an AIDS Vigil and Melts the Internet
Jade Elektra performs at the Toronto AIDS Vigil on June 18, 2019. (Bob Leahy) When Toronto drag queen Jade Elektra, aka HIV positive activist Alphonso King, Jr., stepped to the stage of the [...]
IML Winner Jack Thompson on Sex, HIV, and Facing Transphobia
Jack Thompson, who just won the 2019 International Mr. Leather (IML), is a lot. And he carries it well. Jack is biracial. He’s gay. He’s transgender. He’s extremely kinky, depending on what scale you use [...]
I Left My Hospital Bed to Make an HIV Event. What Self-Care?
"It's 3:00am and I have a plane to catch in the morning, people." Fainting is weird, especially the third time it happened during one weekend. By that time, I knew enough to grab [...]
Behind-the-Scenes Photos from the House Hearing on PrEP
On Thursday, May 16, 2019, the House Oversight Committee conducted a hearing to try and get to the bottom of the Truvada pricing and patent scandal. They were not messing around. The title of the [...]
Five Reasons the Gilead Giveaway is a Steaming Pile of Truvada
Gilead Sciences, the pharmaceutical that makes Truvada, the only FDA-approved drug for PrEP, is having a great week in the public relations department. First, Gilead announced they were surrendering their patent for Truvada a [...]
A New Book Applauds the Straight Women of HIV History (Finally, right?)
Krishna Stone, one of the many women profiled in the book, Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women in the AIDS Community. My first job in AIDS in the 1980s [...]
