Dear Gemmel & Giovanni
I wake up every day and I do about ten minutes of prayer. I sit on my yoga mat with my legs crossed, light...
HIV Self-Care & Mental Health
Checking In
As part of your HIV self-care, take steps to address your mental health
by George M. Johnson
I finally went to see a therapist.
For Black...
What’s Your Status?
I remember being in my twenties and being so afraid to ever be asked this question. The question just seemed so loaded in the...
Time for Therapy
The burdens of being a public figure some days are heavy. In addition to being a full-time journalist, I’m also an avid LGBTQ activist,...
Dating in the Deficit
Deficit: the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small.
If perfect dating as whole were $1.00, then dating as a...
Learning I Wasn’t Transgender
It is easy to be something you are not when you don’t have the knowledge and understanding that anything else exists. It has taken...
The Second Adolescence
At the age of thirty-two I’m now only starting to feel like I am making the best decisions of my life as an adult....
I Am Giovanni
This should go without saying, but in 2017 it seems that nothing can be left off the table in terms of what should and...
Listen Closely
It’s September 18, 2015, about 2 a.m. and I am tired as hell. When this day started, I never thought it would end with...
CBO & ASO & HIV Burnout
Community-based organizations and AIDS service organizations have been staples in the fight against HIV for going on thirty-plus years. They were some of the...
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