Harm Reduction in Georgia
Posted on July 18, 2014 by A&U in Features
The Price of Zero Drug Policies in Former Soviet Republics, Like Georgia, Are Spiking HIV and HCV Rates by Larry Buhl Georgia is facing the same problem as other Soviet republics: a surging rate of HIV and hepatitis C (HCV). Harm reduction advocates and NGOs have concluded that these surges have been exacerbated by government [...]
First Steps on PrEP
Posted on July 16, 2014 by A&U in Features
I AM Men’s Health Philadelphia FIGHT Rethinks HIV Prevention, Shifting from DON’Ts to DOs with PrEP by Michelle Zei Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Freedom G Photography Don’t—the conversation around sex and HIV is full of these phrases: Don’t have sex, don’t have unprotected sex, etc. The negative connotation around HIV and sex can often [...]
Kevin Truong
Posted on July 15, 2014 by A&U in Columns, Ruby's Rap
Ruby’s Rap by Ruby Comer Kevin Truong What keeps Miss Ruby on top of her game? The four divine “P’s,” that’s what—Patience plus Persistence plus Passion equals Payoff! This is my daily mantra and it seems to be the same for photographer, Kevin Truong (rhymes with “thong”). Creator of The Gay Men Project, he travels [...]
Scott Fried
Posted on July 14, 2014 by A&U in Features
Talk to Me Author & award-winning public speaker Scott Fried teaches us to speak “adolescent” when educating our youth about AIDS and life’s other topics by Alina Oswald Let’s face it. Nowadays one cannot talk about HIV/AIDS without bringing up the topic of youth and AIDS. And when it comes to talking to the youth [...]
Living on “The Drive”
Posted on July 10, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
Essay by Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco Living on “The Drive” 1986–2009 Living in Canada, being Canadian, for me, is being HIV-positive. I don’t know any other way of life. I was twenty-two when I came and got infected. If you took HIV away from me, I would be an immigrant again or homeless, or worse, hopeless. My [...]
Brave New World
Posted on July 9, 2014 by A&U in Brave New World, Columns
Brave New World by Corey Saucier Brave New World One Man Navigates the World of Sex and Love in the Age of PrEP and PEP My boyfriend likes to give, and I like to receive, so it’s kind of perfect—if perfect is something two people [...]
Michael Urie
Posted on July 7, 2014 by A&U in Cover Story
Stepping Back Michael Urie Discusses the Importance of the Arts in Teaching Life’s Lessons by Dann Dulin Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Annie Tritt My favorite Pandora station is ‘Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’!” boasts Michael Urie with stirring delight. He then air trumpets a few notes from the 1965 hit, “Whipped Cream.” An [...]
National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS
Posted on July 3, 2014 by A&U in Features
Take Action! Gearing Up for the Second Annual African American Hepatitis C Awareness Action Day, C. Virginia Fields, President and CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Helps Mobilize Communities Around HCV, HIV & Other Health Disparities by Chael Needle Photographed Exclusively for A&U by Alina Oswald We know that 3.2 million Americans [...]
Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
Posted on July 2, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
[BOOKS] Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful? by Kenneth M. Walsh Magnus Books Reviewed by Chael Needle When I first met my current boyfriend, he had never heard of Everything But the Girl, the British band with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, more popular in my day than his. So I had the pleasure of playing the band’s [...]
Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual
Posted on July 1, 2014 by A&U in Positively Literary
[BOOKS] Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual: or I Was Cursed by Polly Holliday by Leslie L. Smith A PressLess Book Reviewed by Sally Hessney In Sally Field Can Play the Transsexual, main character David Mathews’s memories are so ephemeral he deploys a mnemonic device to hold onto them. He plays back memories in his [...]
