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Beyond National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Openness Every Day

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 02.07.2012 | Gay Voices

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For National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, I want to recall how one man's insistence on openness and honesty about AIDS in the black community generated support and saved lives in Los Angeles and beyond.

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HIV Is 'Like Diabetes'? Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 01.31.2012 | Healthy Living

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As an HIV-positive 53-year-old, familiar with the health details of some near and dear diabetics, and having just written an article about the type-2 ("adult onset") diabetes epidemic, I'd say this: We need to choose our analogies carefully.

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Tennessee Senator Behind 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Removed From Restaurant In Wake Of Anti-Gay Remarks

Posted 01.30.2012 | Gay Voices

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Tennessee Senator Stacey Campfield's proposed "Don't Say Gay" law continues to divide residents -- but one local restaurateur made her views on the le...

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Empowering Leaders, Building Communities And Working Toward Global Health Equity

Barbara Bush | Posted 01.27.2012 | Impact

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, Global Health Corps, Hiv, Global Motherhood, Maternal Health, Global Health Aid, Childbirth, Maternal Mortality, Impact News

While our nation is currently facing a tough economic situation, a small fraction of the federal budget goes to global health programs, and they are having a very real impact on communities and saving lives.

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Alec Baldwin & Julia Roberts' Emotional New Story

Posted 01.21.2012 | Entertainment

Read More: Prop 8, Hollywood-Buzz, Hiv, George Clooney, A Normal Heart, Alec Baldwin Julia Roberts a Normal Heart, Ryan Murphy a Normal Heart, Gay Rights, Ryan Murphy, Mark Ruffalo, Jim Parsons, Julia Roberts, Aids, Matt Bomer, Alec Baldwin, Dustin Lance Black, Entertainment News

Alec Baldwin and Julia Roberts have signed on to star in "The Normal Heart," a big screen adaptation of the Tony-winning stage show about the early da...

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How Should We Memorialize Our Lost Loved Ones, Today and Tomorrow?

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 01.12.2012 | Gay Voices

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Should the National AIDS Memorial Grove be mainly for those who suffered first-hand the loss of sons, brothers, friends, and lovers to AIDS? Or is it for future generations? This was the dilemma facing the board of the Grove.

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WATCH: The Religious Roots Of Dancer And Choreographer Bill T. Jones

Posted 01.12.2012 | Religion

Read More: New York Live Arts, Fela! Super Fly, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/the Promised Land, Hiv, Arnie Zane, Everybody Works, Modern Dance, Bill T. Jones, Grieving, Still/Here, Video, Blauvelt Mountain, Aids, Christianity, Dance, Bill T.Jones/Arnie Zane Co., African Dance, Religion News

Bill T. Jones has stormed Broadway in recent years with his Tony Award winning choreography in Spring Awakening and Fela! Yet Jones is no newcomer to...

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Celebrating Gay America's 'Heroic Legacy' in the AIDS Plague

John-Manuel Andriote | Posted 01.03.2012 | Gay Voices

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I've spent 25 years -- about half my life -- reporting and documenting what I call "gay America's heroic legacy in the AIDS plague." But since doing dozens of interviews to update my book, I've been concerned by how quickly our heroic legacy is being forgotten.

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AIDS Patient's Spit Deemed Deadly Weapon: Laws Target HIV-positive Suspects

AP | By DAVID CRARY | Posted 01.03.2012 | Crime

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By DAVID CRARY/ The Associated Press NEW YORK -- A man in Texas is serving a 35-year prison sentence for spitting at a police officer – because h...

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AIDS Casts A Shadow Over New York's Gay Marriage Victory

New York Times | AUSTIN CONSIDINE | Posted 01.01.2012 | Gay Voices

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ON the evening of June 24, Steve Mendelsohn celebrated in the street with his friends and nearly a thousand other supporters of same-sex marriage outs...

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'Unsafe Sex' Practices Make a Comeback Among Boomers

Ann Brenoff | Posted 12.23.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Boomers Don't Use Condoms, Hiv, Sex, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Boomers and Condoms, Fifty News, Unsafe Sex, Condoms, Aids, Fifty News

A boomer friend who recently re-entered the dating scene found herself sharing the bed of a younger man. Her report from the front-line: It was a meet-up of the generation who had never had sex with a condom and the generation who had never had sex without one.

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Africa Mourns Death Of Christopher Hitchens

Michael Mungai | Posted 12.18.2011 | Impact

Read More: Christian Fundamentalism, Christopher Hitchens Death, Christopher Hitchens, Africa, Rwanda, Christopher Hitchens Africa, Hiv, Kenya, Christopher Hitchens HIV/AIDS, Rwanda Genocide, Aids, Christopher Hitchens Activism, Nairobi, Impact News

Africa has just lost one of its greatest allies in the fight for human rights.

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Detroit's Shocking Case Of HIV-Related Job Discrimination

POZ | Todd Heywood | Posted 12.09.2011 | Gay Voices

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Local attorneys in Detroit are preparing to sue the national, privately-owned Great Expressions Dental Centers for what they say is the worst case of ...

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What Children Can Teach Us About HIV

Chip Lyons | Posted 02.05.2012 | Impact

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The news that a 13-year-old-boy has been banned from attending a school in Pennsylvania because he is HIV-positive brought back a flood of memories from an earlier and darker time in the history of the AIDS pandemic.

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What Your Hairdresser Knows For Sure

Gerit Quealy | Posted 02.05.2012 | Impact

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On World AIDS Day this year, some big players rolled out a big idea at Hair on Madison in Harlem: to educate budding hair stylists and colorists across the country to be up to speed on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.

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Cedar Falls, IA: On World AIDS Day, HIV-Positive Iowans Continue To Face Stigma

cedarfalls.patch.com | Posted 02.04.2012 | Home

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"I always say that globally HIV/AIDS is looked at as a humanitarian crisis. But here in America it's considered a moral issue ... "...

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The Unseen Risks Of Nigeria's Anti-Gay Bill

AP | By YINKA IBUKUN | Posted 12.05.2011 | Gay Voices

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LAGOS, Nigeria -- A bill originally designed to outlaw gay marriage in Nigeria likely has consequences far beyond its initial scope – criminaliz...

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Advice for a Young Man Newly Diagnosed with HIV

Bren Shucart | Posted 01.31.2012 | Gay Voices

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When I tested positive in the spring of 2005, it felt like the end of the world. HIV was this boogieman that I had been taught to hate and fear since before I really understood how sex worked, and suddenly this monster was inside me.

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On World AIDS Day, HIV-Positive Iowans Continue To Face Stigma

Cedar Falls, IA Patch | Alison Gowans | Posted 12.01.2011 | Healthy Living

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It has been 30 years since the first cases of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, were discovered in America, but Tami Haught, president of PITCH (Posi...

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25 Years After Son's AIDS-Related Death, Mo. Mom Continues To Advocate For Sufferers

chesterfield.patch.com | Posted 12.01.2011 | Impact

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When Michael Levy was 7 years old, his parents bought him a piano from a Memphis church. It may be big and ugly, as his mother Pat describes it, and i...

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School Denies HIV Positive Boy Admission, Faces Lawsuit

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.02.2011 | Education

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This 13-year-old from Delaware County, Pa. seems like the perfect candidate for a private boarding school: He's an honor student, is active in sports,...

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Teaching AIDS

Matt Weber | Posted 01.31.2012 | Education

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The EdCast has invited three HIV education specialists from UNESCO to discuss how the education sector has played an instrumental role in facilitating the drop in new infections among young people.

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110,000 New Yorkers Are HIV Positive

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 01.31.2012 | New York

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NEW YORK — Health officials in the nation's largest city are recommending that any residents living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as th...

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SLIDESHOW: Which States Have The Highest AIDS Diagnoses?

Posted 12.01.2011 | Impact

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Since the AIDS epidemic first hit the United States in the 1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has kept a close watch on the number ...

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Film Uses Soccer To Explain How HIV/AIDS Spreads

AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 01.31.2012 | Culture

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JOHANNESBURG — A film opening on World AIDS Day Thursday that mixes live action and animation is taking viewers inside a soccer player's body, s...

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