What says Holiday Spirit more than Mom’s cookies, Santa, and candid interviews about loving a family member with HIV?

Once, When We Were Heroes
My most courageous self, the best man that I’ll ever be, lived more than two decades ago during the first years of a horrific plague.

Stop Bludgeoning Young Gay Men with Our AIDS Tragedy
To view young gay men and say, “if only you saw all the AIDS deaths I saw…” disturbs me on all sorts of levels, and it says far more about us than it does about them.

Aboard The 2013 HIV Cruise Retreat!
The 10th Anniversary cruise next year will sail on the #1-ranked Celebrity Cruises from San Juan, Puerto Rico!

Surviving Two Epidemics: AIDS and Meth
Maintaining a functional existence slipped away, just slowly enough not to alarm me, as if the drugs were quietly sneaking out the door with my life.

The Beautiful Sadness of “Dallas Buyers Club”
No one is healed and no one fully conquers their demons. The fact that the filmmakers make you root for them is a testament to a vexing main character you grow to love and admire.

Why aren’t you open about your HIV+ status?
I believe a lot more people could be open about their HIV status, and their only reason for not doing so is fear.

Two Minutes of Advice on Testing HIV Positive
I had to create a video in my own peculiar way — something that demonstrates the sense of humor that has served me well over the course of 30 years living with HIV.

The Most Important Gay Porn Film Ever Made?
The film is either a transgressive act of eroticism, or an act that demonstrates how to become infected with HIV. Or perhaps both.

The Inspiring Advocates of the 2013 U.S. Conference on AIDS
At the recent 2013 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) in New Orleans, the word “stigma” wafted through the event, in workshops and throughout the exhibit hall, like an annoying new pop song you couldn’t stop humming.




