Caressa Cameron, Miss Virginia, completely rocked the Miss America pageant tonight, winning the title of Miss America in the process. This is the first time since 1997- when Kate Shindle took the crown- that a Miss America has had HIV/AIDS as her platform...
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Miss(ing) America
No, this isn't a blog entry about longing for the days of President George Bush after last night's State of the Union Address by President Obama. You'd know I have dementia if that were the case. This entry is only partially political, though mostly personal. This...
The Pregnancy Pact
In June of 2008, there was an article in Time magazine that set off a media frenzy. It told the story of the unusually high rate of teenage pregnancy in one particular Gloucester, MA high school. Thus last weekend, in a longer than usual made-for-TV movie...
Helping Positoids in Haiti
Haiti has long been associated with the AIDS epidemic, due to the high numbers of people living with the virus. Poz magazine just posted an article online about this, and Poz Blogger Oriol Gutierrez just posted about the situation, providing links on how you can help....
Who Is HIV Hoax… Guy?
Uh, I got this video from an anonymous source. It's really, you know, scary. *NOTE: This only makes sense if you have seen the debunked HIV Hoax Lady YouTube vid or read my previous blog entry, HIV Hoax Lady's Viral Video.Positively Yours,Shawn Shawn...
HIV Hoax Lady’s Viral Video
You may or may not have seen the viral video of a young woman's scare tactic to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS by claiming that she has the virus and intends to spread it, or did... I'm not sure, the video is so long and her delivery so annoying that I only made it...
Ethan Zohn Home
On Sunday HIV/AIDS advocate and Survivor Africa Winner went home after 20 days in the hospital, undergoing a complete stem-cell transplant to eradicate cancer. Ethan spent the entire year of 2009 dealing with a cancer diagnosis, finally meeting his nemesis for a...
How I Ended 2009 In The Hospital
2009 wasn't the best year for me health wise, as illustrated by my multi-part series about World AIDS Week in December a few weeks ago. Since then, I've figured that I spent at least 1/6 of the year at less than 100%, due to two coughing episodes that lasted a...
Uganda’s Proposed “Gay Death Panels”
Been hearing bits and pieces of this story for the last month, and the proposed anti-gay laws in Uganda in which it would be punishable by law to not report someone whom you suspected of being a homosexual. In addition, the language of the law made it...
My Avatar: Interplanetary Traveler (by Lauren Hoffman)
One of the best things about 2009 was having iced mochas with Gwenn and our friend, Lauren Hoffman. Her daughter, Evelyn (I call her "Evie") joins in on most of these occasions, stealing foam from the top of Gwenn and Lauren's drinks. The highlight of 2009...