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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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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 [...]
A Short Film for World AIDS Day has Arrived. Watch It Right Now.
"Sing Your Song" follows the awakening of a young man living with HIV in Mississippi. Stop what you’re doing. An exhilarating new short film produced especially for people living with HIV (PLHIV) is [...]
What 5,000 Phone Sex Calls Taught Me about Gay Men
The number might be a little low. Over the course of my “phone fantasy” career in the 1980s, I spoke to as many as ten customers in a given day, numbering in the many thousands [...]
