Last Thursday night, I was reluctantly taken to a party. I am constantly going to parties; it's part of the price I pay for working in the Entertainment Industry. There are parties for just about any moment you can think of. Hollywood is always inventing reasons to...

AIDS Denialists' Movie Does a Better Job in Spreading Fear than an Insurance Company Lobbyist.

All these conversations about health care just keep me going back to two words -- fear and denial. Remove these two words, and we would easily have a health care system that could work...

One man's response to Michael Steele's cries of socialism regarding the health care plan being discussed in Congress at this time.

Dear Mr. Steele:

I am writing in response to your comments on the current health care plan in Congress, specifically calling the plan Socialism. As a person...

Where, oh, where is Ryan White when you need him most?
My ongoing quest for Universal Healthcare in America

I have never met Ryan White though feel as if I have. In fact, I feel rather intimate with him, in spite of our lack of face time. Ryan White...

Why is Amazon.com pushing "Goodbye AIDS" while DC infection rates are on the rise?

While our lawmakers are busy on CNN placing the blame for the financial crisis instead of just trying to solve it, Americans are dealing with an ever-increasing problem - poor or no health insurance....

Who would have ever guessed that anyone would say they felt lucky to have AIDS? As many Americans leave the land of financial over-hype and find themselves back on the ground trying to deal with the their new fiscal reality, it makes me realize that I got my proverbial shot...

Today is my birthday. Today is a day that, frankly, just a few years ago, I did not think I would live to see. Most of my gay male friends from my New York days aren't around to celebrate it with me. They weren't as lucky as I am with...

As I begin this entry, I am perplexed and overwhelmed. How did things get so very out of hand and, yet, at times, seem so very uncorrectable? How did our leaders go so very, very far astray, as if they had the government on some kind of autopilot button? We...

This is the column my parents will wish I didn't write.

I should first begin by warning you I just came home from viewing Milk. We gay people often think our history is just discos, drag queens and casual sex. But long ago, in a galaxy not so far away...

My Sunday morning began just like any other one, pretty much. I get out of bed and go through my self imposed morning yoga and then a perusal of the major news websites, catching up on the events that occurred when I was not looking. One item kept jumping out...

Yesterday I was ending another one of my typical weeks here in Hollywood. You know the ones filled with an excess of encouragement and not enough signed contracts or checks that clear. Hollywood is a town where everyone is always just about to have an orgasm, but for factors out...

Apparently the word this season on Million Dollar Password is "Change". I constantly hear it out of everyone's mouths -- We need change -- This all has to change. Its true, our world cannot stay the same - we have to make some changes. In my mind I keep going...

Did the financial meltdown destroy all hopes for any chance of a new health care system?

As I start to write this, I am just confused and angry, and don't know exactly where to begin. I try to remain positive and focus on the good things in my life, but...

Wall Street isn't the only one with a second chance. I got my own bailout recently when my blood work came back. I am very, very elated that my T cell count is 852, which for the first time since I started counting these things is now in the "normal"...

I was having dinner last night with an old friend who shared with me a story about her recent encounter with the Los Angeles County Hospital system. A friend of her's was hurt while riding a horse and had no insurance. The woman was forced to go to Los Angeles...

Universal Health Care and the Selection of a Vice President
Why McCain should have picked Romney over Palin

Last December, I got to live through the Writers' Guild of America's strike. What they forgot about in the strike is the collateral damage it caused, and I was one of...

Many people often overlook the fact that one man cannot change a whole country - one man can affect change, but people change a whole country. If each of us takes responsibility to start on the road to Universal Health Care, it will happen. We can all create the system...