Housing Is Healthcare—Demand It!
Imagine you’re a long-term survivor of HIV/AIDS in your sixties living in San Francisco. In the 1980s or ‘90s, your health forced you to...
Barbara Brighton: Advocate
Ruby's Rap
by Ruby Comer
Barbara Brighton
Las Vegas. The city conjures up visions of racy nightlife, fortunes won and lost, and boulevards of dazzling neon. There’s...
Candy Samples’ Powers for Good Shannon Stephenson/Cempa Community Care
Being a southern gal residing in NYC, I always find a soft spot for a fellow southerner——someone that “gets” sweet tea and some good...
On the Front Lines: Living with HIV & Working in a...
On the Front Lines
HIV and Working in a Necessary Industry
by John Francis Leonard
For the past six years, I’ve worked part-time at a grocery...
The Plague of 2020 & the Tale of Two T Cells
The Plague of 2020
And the Tale of Two T Cells
by Corey Saucier
I am always screaming that the end is nigh! But I think now it...
Better than Blood Magic
Better than Blood Magic
Fighting Your Demons on the Metro
by Corey Saucier
You are ugly, ruined, and less than.” This is what the delicate demons have...
We Need to Remember AIDS Lessons Learned During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Have Americans Really Forgotten AIDS?!
We Need to Remember AIDS Lessons Learned During the Coronavirus Pandemic
by Hank Trout
In this time of confronting a deadly virus,...
Marty Thomas: Advocate
Ruby's Rap
by Ruby Comer
Marty Thomas
Years ago, too many to count, your Ms. Ruby was a Broadway hoofer—or chorus gal. One evening at a Broadway...
Confronting Body Image as a Gay Man Living with HIV
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Confronting Body Image as a Gay Man Living with HIV
by John Francis Leonard
Gay men don’t have a monopoly...
Get Rid of the Term “AIDS”?
Get Rid of the Term "AIDS"?
(How My Entire Life Suddenly Became Parenthetical)
by Paul A. Aguilar
The other day, I was sitting with three very good...
LATEST POSTS
In Memoriam: Larry Kramer
In Memoriam
Larry Kramer
1935–2020
“If this article doesn’t scare the shit out of you, we’re in real trouble. If this article doesn’t rouse you to anger,...
