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VLOG: Is Oral Sex… Sex? Is It Safe Sex?

Gwenn enjoying a pre-election drink. Tuesday night was a good night.  As someone with two very expensive medical conditions in hemophilia and HIV, I can rest a whole lot easier knowing that President Obama will remain in the White House for another four years....

Obama Kills Osama, and Other Insights

This is the image that is flying around Facebook today on the heels of the big news that, over the weekend, Osama bin Laden was killed.Not sure who mocked this up, and I'm too lazy to search and give proper credit.  But I liked it.  It's rare that a Democrat...

Stephen Colbert Talks Planned Parenthood

Last week in the world of politics, it was all about the threat to shutdown the government, a potentially lethal job-killing move by Republicans to get sugar-coating on some of the behind-the-scenes dealmaking that commoners like us aren't privy to.  What is...

Rep. Anthony Weiner Is Great

I love this guy. Here, Rep. Weiner asks House Republicans to give up their cushy health insurance plans if they are so against people being able to get decent coverage. Sure, he's a blowhard, but that's what makes him shine. And I think the Democrats need more people...

Regan’s Huffington Post Article

Check out Regan Hofmann's article on the Huffington Post, "The Alarming State of AIDS in America". In it she writes: "The critical questions are: Who can, will and is responsible for funding the survival of low-income Americans with HIV? The federal government (by...

Limbaugh Rewriting AIDS History

Media Matter has posted a recent bout of verbal diarrhea suffered by Rush Limbaugh, a chronic sufferer of TOAS (Talking Out of Ass Syndrome).  Last week, Limbaugh stuck up for Ronald Reagan's blind-eye approach to the emerging AIDS epidemic in the 1980's... On...

The Gambia: Another Fake Cure Story…

These fake cure stories are really starting to piss me off, and this one is particularly egregious.  It's the President of The Gambia, Jammeh, who has been affectionately dubbed "The Kanilai Monster" for his less-than-warm and fuzzy approach to rule. This article in...

Florida Facing ADAP Funding Gap

Florida's AIDS Drugs Assistance Program is facing a $14 million budget gap- more like canyon- and HIV/AIDS activists, lawmakers and drug companies are trying to find a solution that tides over state residents until the new fiscal year begins on April 1. To read the...

America Has Teabagged Itself

They say anything is possible in this country, and it just happened.  A sexual act once thought impossible was performed on Tuesday when America successfully teabagged itself. Earlier this week, Editor-in-Chief of Poz Magazine, Regan Hofmann, blogged about why the...