Meet Tommy, My Tumor
Meet Tommy, My Tumor
When you are a long-term survivor, it's always one thing after another
by Hank Trout
Sickness will surely take the mind
Where minds can’t...
The Prodigal Queer
When I first heard last year that my alma mater—West Virginia University, in Morgantown—had opened a new LGBTQ+ Center, I must admit, I was...
I Didn’t Become a Long-Term Survivor by Keeping My Mouth Shut!
I Am My Own Best Advocate
Never hesitate to challenge your doctors—you know your body best!
by Hank Trout
A couple days before Thanksgiving 2016, I woke...
Surviving Survivor’s Guilt
Over the years, I’ve chatted with many other HIV/AIDS long-term survivors about the myriad complications of being among the “AIDS Generation,” those of us...
The Neglect of Survivors Must End
Everyone knows the statistics:
More than half of the 1,300,000 people in the U.S. living with HIV are over the age of fifty; by 2020...
Toward a New Definition of “Survivor”
Like many of our fiercest advocates and activists, I have complained that we Long-Term Survivors of HIV/AIDS are almost universally neglected in our governments’...
Fighting for Our Lives—Again!: Blog by Hank Trout
Last night, on a gloriously warm moonlit Wednesday, 9 November, I marched with thousands of other people in a candlelit anti-Trump rally here in...
Guilt-Free Memories
In May 2016, I met photographers Saul Bromberger and Sandra Hoover when they exhibited at a dinner hosted by Project Open Hand in celebration...
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Linus Ignatius: Advocate
Mass Appeal
Actor & Director Linus Ignatius Explores Body Dysmorphia and Gay Men in an HIV-Conscious Context
by John Francis Leonard
I recently had the opportunity to...
