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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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REVIEW: “It’s a Sin” Really Wants Somebody to Blame
The promise of a new, ambitious television series about “what happened” to gay men in the 1980s is tremendously exciting for long-term HIV/AIDS survivors like myself, starved as we are for representation in the media [...]
Why Mario Cooper is the Greatest HIV/AIDS Figure You’ve Never Heard Of
The Counter Narrative Project (CNP) continued their boundary-busting content creation by hosting a recent virtual event honoring the legacy of Mario Cooper. Cooper, who died in 2015, has been described as the "Nexus Between AIDS [...]
Should People Living with HIV Qualify for Early COVID Vaccination?
Karl Schmid, Jeff Taylor, and Mark S. King during +Talk. Karl Schmid, the plucky television broadcaster who revealed he is living with HIV in 2018, has been putting his notoriety and adorable Auusie [...]
He Planned a Bug Chaser Party as an HIV Fundraiser. Really.
Have you heard the one about the gay porn dude who tried to produce a Palm Springs event for this October that he called the “POZ Pride Fest” to raise money for HIV groups and [...]
For This Black Woman Living with HIV, Grief Creates Power
Activist and Poet Deirdre Johnson Deirdre Johnson’s poem of grief and empowerment, below, begins a series of guest posts on My Fabulous Disease from Black women living with HIV. It’s my salute to [...]
The Viking Terrorist Deserves Ridicule. Not Sexualization.
Alleged domestic terrorist Jake Angeli Humor is subjective, and born out of our desire to process complex emotions. “Comedy is my only weapon,” Mel Brooks once said, a man who has made a [...]
