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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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The Thing about Being Naked with Damon Jacobs
Mark S. King and Damon L. Jacobs Damon Jacobs is moving around his hotel room, setting up a tripod and attaching his camera, all the while chatting away enthusiastically about nothing in particular. [...]
What is Driving the Latest Monkeypox Messaging Battle?
The first AIDS joke I ever heard in the early 1980s, back when the threat seemed remote and I was young and insensitive enough to laugh at misfortune, was about who got AIDS. At the [...]
Georgia’s DeKalb County Does Monkeypox Vax Exactly Right
DeKalb County HIV/STD Prevention Specialist Noreen Mirza The big picture view of monkeypox in this country has been fraught with heated debate, acrimony, homophobia, and anxious uncertainty about vaccine strategy and distribution. And [...]
CDC’s Daskalakis on Monkeypox, Stigma, and being ‘the Gay in the Room’
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis (2019 photo by Benjamin Ryan) Dr. Demetre Daskalakis has had a swift, visible ascent at the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which snatched him away from a successful [...]
Two HIV/AIDS Survivors Discuss Life, Death, and Leaving HIV Activism
Tez Anderson and Mark S. King (photo: Derrick Mapp) Tez Anderson is a truth-bomb talking poster boy of long-term HIV survival. As one of the founders of the Let’s Kick ASS (AIDS Survival [...]
Here’s the Complete AIDS2022 Coverage from My Fabulous Disease
Clockwise from top left: Attendees at "For F#cks Sake;" with survivor Tez Anderson; a massage in the 'Positive Lounge;' a reveler at 'No Pants No Problem;' the monkeypox protest; with activist Jade Elektra. [...]
