Honoring Our Experience
Posted on January 29, 2014 by A&U in Noteworthy
Honoring Our Experience A Retreat for Gay Men of the “AIDS Generation” Editor’s note: Advocate and speaker Gregg Cassin, whose artwork has graced the pages of A&U, is leading a California retreat for HIV-positive and negative gay men who came of age in the 1980s. The text below is culled from the retreat’s Web site. [...]
Leah Nash
Posted on January 28, 2014 by A&U in Gallery
Tell the Story V. Anderson talks with photojournalist Leah Nash about documenting individuals living with HIV/AIDS in India The interpretation of “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” was recently hotly disputed in India’s Supreme Court. Historically used to criminalize homosexuality, Section 377 (from the year 1860) of the Indian Penal Code was upheld on [...]
Just*in Time: January 2014
Posted on January 27, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Just*in Time
Hello Justin, My name is Enrique and I live in Mexico and I am HIV-positive. I first saw your blog and YouTube videos around two years ago, or maybe more. That’s when I first got diagnosed and I started looking things up on the Internet and I was led to your YouTube blog. Well, I [...]
HCV Serosorting
Posted on January 24, 2014 by A&U in Hep Talk, LifeGuide
Testing, Testing Serosorting is common for IV drug users who know their HCV status by Larry Buhl A new study shows IV drug users who know they carry the hepatitis C virus are likely to consider their serostatus when deciding whether and with whom to share injection equipment. The results, published in the December 15, [...]
Ordinary People
Posted on January 23, 2014 by A&U in Movies & TV, The Arts
Ordinary People Is It Time to Stop Honoring “AIDS Movies” with Awards? by Chael Needle For their consideration, I am respectfully asking that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences ignore Dallas Buyers Club this season [Editor's note: This essay was written before Dallas garnered its Oscar noms]. Yes—ignore. Sure, Oscar nominations alone would [...]
David Evans
Posted on January 22, 2014 by A&U in Destination: Cure, LifeGuide
Risk & Reward Activist David Evans weighs in on next steps in cure advocacy & research by Jeannie Wraight In the late 1980s and throughout the ’90s, AIDS treatment activism helped dramatically speed up AIDS research and the drug approval process, saving countless people from illness and certain death. Now, in 2013, some of the [...]
SEXO LATEX
Posted on January 21, 2014 by A&U in Features
Bringing Sexy Back Twenty Years After Its Launch, a Groundbreaking HIV Awareness Campaign Makes a Comeback by Chip Alfred The year was 1992. Gay men across the country were salivating over a series of images that sparked a firestorm of controversy in Philadelphia. SEXO LATEX, an HIV prevention campaign featuring hunky, nearly-naked Latino men, was [...]
Linking to Care
Posted on January 20, 2014 by A&U in Features
Linking Up Community Health Workers and Other Innovative Programs Connect Patients to Long-Term HIV Treatment by Larry Buhl For the first three decades of HIV/AIDS, the battle cry was Condoms Always! (and Find a Cure Now!). Since HIV has become a long-term manageable disease, at least for those who can afford and tolerate the newest [...]
Sophie B. Hawkins
Posted on January 17, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Ruby's Rap
Ruby’s Rap by Ruby Comer Sophie B. Hawkins Sophie B. Hawkins’s music is like her lover—it exposes, inspires, and even threatens. Yummy. After reading this revelation in an interview of this singer, songwriter, and musician, I knew I’d bond with this gal. Over the past two decades, Sophie’s had many chart busters. In the early [...]
Triptych for Christopher
Posted on January 16, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Triptych for Christopher I. Roller Coaster It’s sitting down with the doctors for the very first time and being told that our son is sick, dying, his body turning on itself, that makes it real, that gets this roller coaster going. Having words like options and chances and wishes in our vocabulary now—we grip the [...]
